Former Village Hall and caretakers house

18, 20 and The Reading Rooms, Fox Street, SG19 3AA

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211128
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:: Former Village Hall and caretakers house
Statutory Address:: 18, 20 and The Reading Rooms, Fox Street, SG19 3AA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211128
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1983
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: Former Village Hall and caretakers house
Statutory Address 1:: 18, 20 and The Reading Rooms, Fox Street, SG19 3AA

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 18, 20 and The Reading Rooms, Fox Street, SG19 3AA

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Gransden
National Grid Reference:: TL 27037 56017

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 August 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 2756 13/51

TL 2657 12/51

GREAT GRANSDEN FOX STREET (South-West Side) Nos 18 and 20 and The Reading Rooms

(Formerly listed as No 18 (Village Hall) and No 20 (Garnett Cottage), previously listed as Village Hall and Caretakers House, previously the Reading Rooms)

GV II

Village Hall and caretakers house dated TVW 1871 on plaques. Hall, forming central range parallel to street, timber framed and plastered with thatched roof, two brick side stacks to north-east elevation with C19 slated, verandah with cast-iron piers to south-west. House to south-east and extension to north-west of red brick with yellow brick quoins and dressings to openings and brick bands. Slate roofs. Two storeys. Large square ridge stack to house; with three hung sash windows and one replacement window and modern door. Two large panelled doors to hall and north-west entrance with wooden architraves of imitation rusticated stone with fanned key blocks. Similar to doorcase at Audley House, home of Dr. Webb. Windows, cross-framed in painted brick arches to hall and extension to north-west.

Kellys Directory (Hunts) 1898.

Listing NGR: TL2702756025

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Legacy System number:: 395694
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Kelly's Directory' in Bedfordshire Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire, (1898)

Legal

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