The Guildhall
THE GUILDHALL, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1165789
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUILDHALL, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1165789
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GUILDHALL, NORTH 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 GUILDHALL, NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittlesford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 47279 48313
Details
TL 4648 WHITTLESFORD NORTH ROAD (North-east side) 10/338 The Guildhall 22.11.67 GV II* Guildhall, converted to several cottages and now one dwelling. Late C15 or early C16, with C19 alterations, restored 1967. Timber-framed with plaster infill; hipped plain tiled roof. Rear chimney stack. Two storeys. Four equal timber-framed bays jettied to south-west and south-east elevations; main entrance in second bay from left hand, and first floor entrance, to rear of first bay. C20 boarded door in original wave-moulded wooden door frame with four-centred arched head and carved spandrels. (Similar moulding to rear door). Four first floor windows in original positions with leaded-light casement windows and three ground floor four-light mullioned windows. Plain curved braces to each bay post of jetty with carved pilaster ornament. Roll-moulded jetty bressumer enriched with folded leaf carving. Weathered corner post with roll-moulded dragon post. Interior: Original plan of single bay to left hand divided into two rooms at ground floor with three-bayed hall, and first floor hall of four bays with externals access. Floor frames and crown-post roof trusses with plain chamfered detail. Evidence of shutters to original windows. C19 tiled floor of note. The Guildhall was used as the parish workhouse from c.1600, and occasionally as a school room. VCH Vol.VI. P.271-2
Listing NGR: TL4727948313
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53157
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 271-2
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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