Tan House
TAN HOUSE, 15, SOUTH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163386
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tan House
- Statutory Address:
- TAN HOUSE, 15, SOUTH END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163386
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tan House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAN HOUSE, 15, SOUTH END
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TAN HOUSE, 15, SOUTH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 33197 43823
Details
TL 3243 BASSINGBOURN-CUM-KNEESWORTH SOUTH END (East Side) 20/72 No. 15 22.11.67 (Tan House)
II
House. Late C17 with C18 and C19 alterations. Red brick with burnt headers, timber-frame plastered and exposed. Red plain tiled roof. Two storeys with attic and lower ranges to rear forming an L-plan. West elevation: Wooden modillioned eaves cornice, exposed timber-frame at first floor. Doorway to left of centre with fluted pilasters and Doric entablature, five-panelled door and rectangular fanlight. One C19 hung sash canted bay window to left hand and one sixteen-paned flush-framed hung sash window to right hand; three first floor twelve-paned hung sash; windows. Three gabled casement dormer windows. South gable wall red brick with plinth, bands at first floor and eaves level; parapet gable with panelled brick chimney with moulded brick at its junction (qv Manor Farmhouse, North End, Bassingbourn-cum-Kneesworth). Interior: Moulded inter-secting ceiling beams to kitchen, and cased ceiling beams, C17 panelling reset, late C17 bolection moulded panelling in south room and painted panel over the chimney piece, a copy of C.D. Agar's portrait of Thomas Wentworth 3rd Earl of Strafford (RCHM). Original staircase to attics.
RCHM Report 1950 VCH Vol VIII p.15
Listing NGR: TL3319743823
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52477
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 15
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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