Ryder's Farmhouse
RYDER'S FARMHOUSE, 35, MIDDLE WATCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164456
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Ryder's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RYDER'S FARMHOUSE, 35, MIDDLE WATCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164456
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Ryder's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RYDER'S FARMHOUSE, 35, MIDDLE WATCH
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:
- RYDER'S FARMHOUSE, 35, MIDDLE WATCH
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 36362 68324
Details
TL 3668-3768 SWAVESEY MIDDLE WATCH (West Side)
14/114 No. 35 11.4.80 (Ryder's Farmhouse)
GV II*
Farmhouse. Late C13 aisled hall with crosswing possibly C15 or earlier, C18 and C19 additions and alterations. Timber framed and plastered, early C18 local bricks, C19 brick and painted brick. Plain tile roofs. Red brick ridge stacks to main range and crosswing. Two storeys with central main range aisled, crosswing to west with hipped roof, extensions to east one storey with attics. North facing facade has one boarded door to left hand and one four-panelled door; two horizontal sliding sash windows and three hung sash windows randomly placed. Interior. Two arcade posts, and arcade plates with tie beams and crown post truss complete, with some rafters of original C15 hall. (Other timbers are possibly concealed by C19 plastered ceilings and partitions). Dairy with cheese press. The farmhouse is situated on the pre enclosure building line of the village green. Lady Dudley Ryder, daughter of Thomas Cockayne lived at the farmhouse in 1852. Davis E.M. P. C.A.S. Vol. LXXII, 1982
Listing NGR: TL3636268324
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51013
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Cambridgeshire Antiquarian Society in Proceedings of the Cambridgeshire Antiquarian Society, Vol. 72, (1982)
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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