Somersham House and Bramston

SOMERSHAM HOUSE AND BRAMSTON, RECTORY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1163753
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:
Somersham House and Bramston
Statutory Address:
SOMERSHAM HOUSE AND BRAMSTON, RECTORY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1163753
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:
Somersham House and Bramston
Statutory Address 1:
SOMERSHAM HOUSE AND BRAMSTON, RECTORY LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SOMERSHAM HOUSE AND BRAMSTON, RECTORY LANE

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Somersham
National Grid Reference:
TL3569978130

Details

SOMERSHAM RECTORY LANE
1.
5140

Somersham House and Bramston
(Formerly listed as The Rectory)

TL 37 NE 5/3
II
2.
Early C19 Rectory with service wing, stable block and courtyard at right hand. Gault
brick. Hipped, slate roof of low pitch with boarded eaves. Side stack and end stack with
shafts linked at entablature. Two-storeys. Front elevation of three bays with slightly
projecting centre bay. One sealed window opening and two hung sashes with slender
glazing bars at first-floor. Double recessed arch with semi-circular head to central
doorway. Panelled double doors with fanlight. Garden front has range of four similar
hung sashes at first-floor and four full-length casements at ground-floor. Adjoining
two-storey service wing. Gault brick with gabled, slate roof of low pitch. Three hung
sashes at first-floor. Coach-house and stable block linked to service wing by shaped,
gault brick wall.


Listing NGR: TL3569978130

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 February 2018.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
54186
Legacy System:
LBS

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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