Biggin Abbey
BIGGIN ABBEY, HORNINGSEA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178408
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Biggin Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- BIGGIN ABBEY, HORNINGSEA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178408
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Biggin Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIGGIN ABBEY, HORNINGSEA 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:
- BIGGIN ABBEY, HORNINGSEA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fen Ditton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48738 61757
Details
TL 46 SE FEN DITTON HORNINGSEA ROAD (West Side)
7/28 Biggin Abbey 31.8.62
II*
Farmhouse. Late C14 with C17 additions and alterations. Cement rendered limestone and clunch and local C17 brick. Concrete tile copings to main gable parapets. Modern red pantiles and old plain tile roofs. Two storey main range, one storey and attic extensions to south west. South east elevation has lateral buttresses of three stages and rendered plinth. Three replacement first floor two-light casement windows. Main entrance to left hand with panelled door. Inserted C17 stack originally with shaped shafts partly rebuilt to right hand. C17 gable extensions of perhaps two building periods with parapet gable and stack and end stack to lower range. Yellow and red local brick with band and chequer patterning. Modern fenestration; one dormer window and four ground floor windows of various sizes. Boarded door to right hand. For interior details and reconstruction of original building see R.C.H.M. East Cambs. The farmhouse is a surviving part of the residence of The Bishops of Ely and was visited by Henry III, Edward I and Edward II, it was once moated. A small attic room known as the 'Monks Prison' may have been used as a chapel and was described by Wm Cole. Cole, Wm. Watercolour 1768 R.C.H.M.: East Cambs p. 58, mon. 5. Relhan (1754-1823), Watercolour C.A.S. Collection C.A.S. Col XLVIII, 1955 pp. 1-5. Chadwick, D.V.M.
Listing NGR: TL4873861757
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50579
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Vol. 48, (1955), 1-5
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
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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