Hardwicke Farmhouse

Hardwicke Farmhouse

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210913
Date first listed:
18-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Hardwicke Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
Hardwicke Farmhouse

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210913
Date first listed:
18-Nov-1983
Date of most recent amendment:
03-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:
Hardwicke Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
Hardwicke Farmhouse

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Hardwicke Farmhouse

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Abbotsley
National Grid Reference:
TL 20870 56607

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 25 NW
5/82

EYNESBURY HARDWICKE
Hardwicke Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Eynesbury Hardwicke house about ½ mile east of Golf Club House)

II

Early C17 farmhouse on a moated site. Hall with crosswing to north and mid-late C19 range to south. Timber framed with modern render. Modern tile roof with repaired, red brick stack at junction of hall and crosswing. Both hall and crosswing are of two storeys with modern fenestration and entries. Mid-late C19 south range of gault brick with plain tile roof. Three window range of recessed hung sashes. Central doorway.

Interior. Hall range of three bays, including narrower fire-bay. Large inglenook of reused limestone rubble and soft red brick. Moulded main beam and middle rails forming a cornice. Crosswing of three bays. Chamfered and stopped tie beams. Side purlin roof with long, straight wind bracing. About fifteen yards north west of the house there are limestone fragments formerly in the floor of the crosswing. They are of the mid C12 and include a scalloped capital and moulded base. Probably from C12 chapel on site, demolished c.1600.

RCHM (Hunts) mon. (3).

Listing NGR: TL2087056607

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
395483
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Hardwicke Farmhouse

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