Priory Farmhouse
PRIORY FARMHOUSE, 49, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164729
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, 49, ABBEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164729
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, 49, ABBEY STREET
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:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, 49, ABBEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ickleton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 49134 43593
Details
TL 4843 ICKLETON ABBEY STREET (South-east side) 21/194 No. 49 (Priory Farmhouse) GV II Farmhouse. Early C16 with late C16 brew house to south-east partly incorporated into the original range with mid to late C17 double pile range to street and C19 extensions and alterations. Timber-framed and plastered, gault brick and painted brick. Red plain tiled and slated roofs. Two storeys. Street elevation C19 refonted and extended by one bay to left hand; main entrance with wooden reeded doorcase with corner bosses, recessed half glazed panelled door. One blind and two twenty-paned recessed hung sash windows, one blind and three sixteen-paned recessed hung sash first floor windows. End stack to right hand and ridge stack. Some C18 plaster in rear elevation and casement window with leaded lights. Interior: Exposed C16 and C17 timber-frame and floor frames; inserted C18 floor to brewery; reduced and rebuilt C18 kitchen hearth; early C19 details and staircase to main street range. Candle flame inscription dated 1722 in rear attic. Timber marks in brewery, IS x 69 x 19. The farmhouse is said to be on the site of Ickleton Priory. RCHM Report 1949 Pevsner Buildings of England. p.412
Listing NGR: TL4913443593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53006
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 412
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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