MONUMENT TO POTTO BROWN

MONUMENT TO POTTO BROWN, THE GREEN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163410
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO POTTO BROWN
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO POTTO BROWN, THE GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163410
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO POTTO BROWN
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT TO POTTO BROWN, THE GREEN

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO POTTO BROWN, THE GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Houghton and Wyton
National Grid Reference:: TL2818272189

Details

HOUGHTON AND WYTON 1. 5140 TL 2872 13/28

THE GREEN (south-east corner) Houghton

Monument to Potto Brown II

2. Bronze bust of Potto Brown surmounted on granite plinth with three inscribed panels. 'Potto Brown was born in this village 16th July 1797 where he spent his life devoting himself to the best interests of those around him and died 12th April 1871.' Potto Brown, the miller, built Houghton Chapel in 1840.

Listing NGR: TL2818272189

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Legacy System number:: 54076
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.