Gransden Hall

GRANSDEN HALL, MEADOW ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1211193
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Gransden Hall
Statutory Address:
GRANSDEN HALL, MEADOW ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1211193
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Gransden Hall
Statutory Address 1:
GRANSDEN HALL, MEADOW 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GRANSDEN HALL, MEADOW ROAD

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 26621 55814

Details

TL 2656 GREAT GRANSDEN MEADOW ROAD (South Side) 14/58 Gransden Hall 24.10.51

- II

Small country house. Originally mid C17, H-plan building with two cross-wings to east and west, soft red brick. Facade to north rebuilt in 1716 and two storey addition to rear of west wing with hipped slate roof. Alterations made to existing fabric in mid C19 and original entry in north removed to east and new additions added to south in gault brick with low-pitched slated roofs. Two large red brick stacks to original building. Two storeys, and two storeys with attcis. Facade to north noteworthy with carved date 1716 in central blind parapet window. Built of gauged bricks with fine joints and originally symmetrical. Two wings slightly project, each has a shaped parapet with stone copings and ball finials incomplete, deep moulded cornice, and high plinth with roll moulding. Pilasters at quoins with moulded brick capitals. East wing has two first floor casement windows with leaded lights and aprons with plaster scroll brackets to moulded brick bands. Ground floor windows similar without aprons and sealed in later brick. Wing to west slightly altered by replacement windows and inserted door. Central range of three bays has three blind parapet windows with moulded brick sills and segmental arch to central window. Three tall first floor windows with moulded brick sills and replacement C19 hung sash windows with glazing bars. Part of moulded brick jamb to original door visible beside C18 canted 'Batty Langley' bay window. Three-light window to right hand in flat brick arch. Interior has two staircases, early and mid C19. Other details largely C19. Very large cooking hearth sealed, in early C18 extension. RCHM (Hunts) mon. (3), p120.

Listing NGR: TL2662155814

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Legacy System number:
395734
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 120

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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