The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, 1, WHITTLESFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165010
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 1, WHITTLESFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165010
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 1, WHITTLESFORD 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:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 1, WHITTLESFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Shelford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45438 51632
Details
TL 4551 LITTLE SHELFORD WHITTLESFORD ROAD
19/173 No.1 The Old House 31.8.62 (formerly listed as The Old GV House)
II
House, formerly lodge, late C16, C18, late C19 and c.1928. Red brick, painted, with timber-framing and plaster render. Steeply pitched tiled roofs, with a half hipped roof to the west gable end. Two side stacks to the north wall. Original plan of a single range parallel to the road and forming the north crosswing to an H-plan manor house of c.1600. Two storeys and attic with part of band remainind between the storeys. Elevation to the road has C19 hung sashes irregularly placed and one gable end with a two storey canted bay. Entry from the road in C19 porch. The gable end to the east has an oriel window and the dates 1764 and 1858 in a panel above. Adjoining the house is an early C18 wall with two piers of narrow red and yellow brick with stone cornice and ball finails. Interior: Some of the original timber-framing is visible in the east end at first floor level. The centre ground floor room has intersecting main beams, stop chamfered and another room with an early C18 niche with rusticated surround, and a moulded cornice and part of an overmantel. The raised and fielded panelling probably from this room forms a partition wall in a bedroom. Another bedroom has early C17 panelling below dado height. The house was the north wing of Old Shelford House, the home of the Wale family since c.1700. In c.1880 a new house was built to the south, (burnt down 1928) and this building became the lodge. A model of the original house is in the Cambridge and County Folk Museum, Castle Hill, Cambridge. Thomas Babington Macaulay, the historian, was at school here from 1813-15 and refers to an attic room, possibly that in the west gable end, in his correspondence.
Listing NGR: TL4543851632
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51577
- 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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