The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, FOWLMERE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1165063
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, FOWLMERE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1165063
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, FOWLMERE 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 COTTAGE, FOWLMERE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 43934 49233
Details
NEWTON
220/22/178 FOWLMERE ROAD 29-AUG-1984 (West side) THE COTTAGE
II*
House. c.1905-6 with additional service wing and motor house added c.1907-8. By Barry Parker of Parker and Unwin for H.W. Hurrell Esq. Clay bat with some timber framing to the rear wall, originally roughcast rendered now replaced by cement. Steeply pitched plain tiled roofs at two levels with deep overhang at eaves and crested ridge tiles. Two gault brick stacks, one to the ridge and the other to the right hand gable end, and a third stack set obliquely to the front wall. Each stack has a narrow string course but no projecting capping. The house retains its original plan of a single range of four equal squares with the porch and hall and stairbay partly superimposed over the end bays. The house is of two storeys with three- and four-light casements to each storey. The two-storey porch set obliquely to the front wall has a flat roof and four loop openings at first floor. The room to the south, the living room, has a bay window across the south west corner which is in alignment with the side walls of the porch and hall.
Adjoining the house at the north end is the slightly later service and motor house addition. Similar materials with exposed framing in the gable end to the road, but the roofs are pantiled and at a lower level. Similar small gault brick stack. Two storeys. One gable dormer.
INTERIOR. The entrance hall has an early C18 reset closed-string staircase with turned balusters. The living room has a corner fireplace behind the stairs with overmantel and some early C17 reset panelling. Possibly C18 fireplace to study with C17 overmantel and Art Nouveau style grate. First floor has original simple red tile fireplaces. Original doors and windows survive overall. Mostly original fittings in kitchen/scullery etc. area.
The service wing has original doors, windows and fittings. The harness room has boarded walls and the stabling has loose boxes with corner sinks. Fireplace in groom's room above the coach house.
Architectural Review: June 1978 p.326-332
Parker and Unwin: Catalogue of an Exhibition at the
Architectural Association, London. Feb-March 1980
The Craftsman: ed. G. Strickley (N.Y.) (c.1910)
D. Hawkes: (Dept. of Architecture and Urban Studies:
University of Cambridge): unpublished manuscript
M. Miller, The art of building a home, in Burman, P., ed., Architecture 1900, 1998.
Listing NGR: TL4393449233
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51582
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Parker, , Unwin, , Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Architectural Association, (1980)
The Craftsman in The Craftsman, (1910)
Architectural Review in June, (1978), 326-332
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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