Bodsey House
BODSEY HOUSE, TOLL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1166717
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bodsey House
- Statutory Address:
- BODSEY HOUSE, TOLL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1166717
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bodsey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BODSEY HOUSE, TOLL 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:
- BODSEY HOUSE, TOLL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ramsey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 29526 87334
Details
TL 28 NE RAMSEY TOLL ROAD 5/2 (east side)
1.5.51 Bodsey House
I
C13 hermitage of Ramsey Abbey. Originally single-storeyed, partly demolished to south for C14 Chapel of 4 bays lying east to west. East bay of Chapel demolished in C16 when converted to a dwelling. Two-storeyed, timber-framed wing added to west facade in C17. Later C18 and C19 additions and alterations.
Stone rubble with Barnack stone quoins, buttresses, and window and door jambs to original buildings. Early brick and later apinted and rendered brick; plain tile gable roofs with barge boards.
West Facade 2 storeys high has 2 projecting wings with 19 flat roofed linking vestibule. Crushed pebble rendering to all walls with flush plastered quoins and brick foundations. brick and limestone side stack with 3 diagonal shafts to north of south wing. Splayed bay window with hung sashes and glazing bars to small north C18 wing, and hung sash window with glazing bars in boxed wooden frame above. Two horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars in main range to north.
South, Chapel Facade with Barnack stone foundations, south-west quoin, and angle buttresses of 2 stages. Two original round-headed arches of chapel with moulded lables now sealed with modern window insertions. One first floor hung sash window with glazing bars and one casement window in 2 centred arch. Plain tiled gabled dormer has horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars. Rebuilt east gable wall has an end stack of brick with moulded string and 3 diagonal shafts.
Two C13 flat arched, single light windows with chamfered reveals in east facade. Four first floor windows of various sizes; band between floors. Large side stack, C16, of reused Barnack stone and early brick, to north.
Interior: has details of C13 building including 2 original cross passage doors and reused corbel in main range. C16 and C17 floor frames. Coved timber ceiling to C17 wing, also with fine 4-centred arched stone chimney piece. Large C16 cooking hearth in kitchen of re-used Barnack stone. Recently inserted C19 staircase taken from Priory Park, St Neots.
Source: 'Huntingdonshire Records' 1970 P G M Dickinson. 'Ramsey Abbey' 1881 J Wise, W M Noble reprinted 1981. Pevsner p. 211 RCHM p.209.
Listing NGR: TL2952687334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54475
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 209
Wise, J, Noble, W, Ramsey Abbey, (1981)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 211
Other
PGM Dickinson, Huntingdonshire Records, (1970)
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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