The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, 7, BLACKHORSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164432
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 7, BLACKHORSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164432
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 7, BLACKHORSE 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.
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:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 7, BLACKHORSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swavesey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 36060 68839
Details
TL 3668-3768 SWAVESEY BLACKHORSE LANE (South Side)
14/103 No. 7 31.8.62 (The Old House)
GV II
House, formerly a farmhouse. Early C18 and C19. C18 red brick with lighter red brick dressings, C19 gault brick, some exposed timber frame in rear wing with red brick nogging. Plain tile roofs. Two storeys with attics and basement; double pile plan achieved after C19 addition to original L-plan. Five symmetrical 'bays'. Moulded brick cornice with swan-necked pediment to original doorway, six-panelled door and rectangular fanlight with patterned glazing bars; hood with soffit panels and dentil cornice supported on modern brick jambs. Four, ground floor twelve-paned hung sash windows with key blocks to flat gauged brick arches; five similar first floor windows. Tumbled brick parapet gables with end stacks, dentil and moulded brick eaves cornice. Interior details C19; original ground floor plan of hall and parlour partitioned for C19 staircase hall. The farmhouse was formerly known as Chantry Farmhouse and is said to have been built with 6,000 bricks from Scarborough. Heffer. Camb. L. Hist. Council Bulletin. No.29 1973 Deeds. (Chantry Farmhouse)
Listing NGR: TL3606068839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51004
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Heffer, , Cambridgeshire Local History Council Bulletin in Cambridgeshire Local History Council Bulletin, Vol. 29, (1973)
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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