Houghton Poultry Research Station
HOUGHTON POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, HOUGHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163443
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Houghton Poultry Research Station
- Statutory Address:
- HOUGHTON POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, HOUGHTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163443
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Houghton Poultry Research Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUGHTON POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, HOUGHTON ROAD
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:
- HOUGHTON POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, HOUGHTON ROAD
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:
- TL 29562 72002
Details
HOUGHTON AND WYTON HOUGHTON ROAD 1. 5140 Houghton Houghton Poultry Research Station TL 27 SE 6/4 II 2. Elizabethan Revival country house dated 1897 on tympanum. Architect, Ransome; built for C H Coote (monograms on north facing chimney plaques). Symmetrical plan, two- storeys and attics. Red brick with rustic stone foundations and moulded plinth band. Plain tile gable roofs. Stone copings to four facade gables with ball finials to garden elevation. Stone ovolo moulded mullions and transomes to first-floor range of four four-light windows with leaded lights. Two windows to left and right hand with full length casements to balconies with stone balustrades above two pentagonal bay windows. Central garden door, half-glazed in stop moulded stone architrave with dentil cornice and segmental pediment. Two three-light windows flank doorway. Two slightly projecting gable wings with gable stacks in north elevation, and central two-storey closed porch. Oak door in four-centred arch with carved spandrels and dentil cornice. Very fine five-light mullion and transomed windows with similar side lights and segmental pediment. Interior: Original oak panelling, staircases and chimney pieces intact. Hand forged iron ware. (N Pevsner p 267).
Listing NGR: TL2956272002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54083
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 267
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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