Gates and Gatepiers and Wall at Docwra's Manor
GATES AND GATEPIERS AND WALL AT DOCWRA'S MANOR, MELDRETH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166005
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Gates and Gatepiers and Wall at Docwra's Manor
- Statutory Address:
- GATES AND GATEPIERS AND WALL AT DOCWRA'S MANOR, MELDRETH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166005
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gates and Gatepiers and Wall at Docwra's Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATES AND GATEPIERS AND WALL AT DOCWRA'S MANOR, MELDRETH 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:
- GATES AND GATEPIERS AND WALL AT DOCWRA'S MANOR, MELDRETH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shepreth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 39263 47952
Details
SHEPRETH MELDRETH ROAD TL 3947 (North west side) 21/336 Gates and gatepiers and wall at 22.11.67 Docwra's Manor ( formerly listed as Docwraies Manor with boundary walls s and entrance gates) GV II
Gates, gatepiers and wall with railings. Square red brick piers with limestone cornices and ball finials. Wnmmtiron gates with overthrow of C and S scrolls and tulip and acanthus decoration, enclosing the initial W. (The initial is a modern replacement of the original.) The flanking dwarf brick wall has wrot-iron spearhead railings. Docwra's Manor was acquired by Joseph Woodham in 1743 and the facade of the house, the gates, wall and piers probably date from then.
V.C.H. Cambs. Vol. 5 p.255
Listing NGR: TL3926347952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52387
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 255
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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