Abbey Farmhouse
ABBEY FARMHOUSE, DUXFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165028
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, DUXFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165028
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, DUXFORD 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:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, DUXFORD ROAD
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 48902 43620
Details
TL 4843 ICKLETON DUXFORD ROAD (East side) 21/229 Abbey Farmhouse 22.11.67 GV II Farmhouse. Medieval, C13 core with C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Clunch rubble, timber-framed and plastered and brick. Plain tiled roofs forming an M profile gable in main range. Rectangular stack and two rear stacks. Two storeys and attics double pile plan an addition to an existing C13 building with rear gabled extensions. Symmetrical facade of three 'bays' with central flat roofed Tuscan portico, six-panelled door with side and over lights. Two ground floor and three first floor casement windows with transomes. Interior: Two flights of C17 balustered closed string staircase; stop-chamfered C17 ceiling beams. C19 and C20 details. C15 ogee-chamfered tie beam with mortices for wall posts and braces at first floor. C13 doorway described in 1949 now sealed. Large hearth with ingle nooks and niches partly relined, C17: other hearths sealed or demolished. Deep splays to window jambs and doors through original building. RCHM Report 1949 VCH Vol. VI Ickleton
Listing NGR: TL4890243620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53041
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978)
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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