Monks Hardwicke House, About 1 Mile East of Prior Hill Park
MONKS HARDWICKE HOUSE, ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF PRIOR HILL PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211325
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Hardwicke House, About 1 Mile East of Prior Hill Park
- Statutory Address:
- MONKS HARDWICKE HOUSE, ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF PRIOR HILL PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211325
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Hardwicke House, About 1 Mile East of Prior Hill Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKS HARDWICKE HOUSE, ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF PRIOR HILL PARK
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:
- MONKS HARDWICKE HOUSE, ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF PRIOR HILL PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Neots
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 21404 61601
Details
TL 26 SE ST. NEOTS RURAL
2/88 (23/2) Monks Hardwick House, 24.10.51 about 1 mile east of Prior Hill Park
GV II
On a moated site. Two ranges forming a T-plan, remaining from a larger house, probably built c.1600 by Sir Edmund Anderson, kt, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Adjoining and to the south is a c.1830 block. c.1600 house timber framed with rebuilt east and west gable ends of late C17 red brick, English bond. The walls were cased in gault brick in early C19 and the range to the north shortened and gable end rebuilt in modern times. Plain tile and modern tile roofs. Two gable end stacks, the ridge stack has been removed. Two storeys. Later fenestration to gable ends. c.1830 block of double pile plan. Gault brick and hipped, slate roof of low pitch. Two storeys. Range of five recessed hung sashes with glazing bars. Pedimented Roman doric portico of stone. Interior. East-west crosswing of c.1600 house has three bays with sealed inglenook to centre bay and hearth to first floor room above. The ground floor room of the parlour wing to the north has double cyma moulding to middle rails and main beam. Original cantilevered staircase to c.1830 block. Open string with square section balusters. RCHM (Hunts) p228, mon. 2. VCH (Hunts) (Vol. II) p340. Pevsner: Buildings of England, p295.
Listing NGR: TL2140461601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395819
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 228
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1932), 340
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 295
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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