The Old Hall
THE OLD HALL, KEYSTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214320
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HALL, KEYSTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214320
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HALL, KEYSTON 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:
- THE OLD HALL, KEYSTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Covington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 05687 70796
Details
TL 0470-0570 COVINGTON KEYSTON ROAD (EAST SIDE)
8/5 THE OLD HALL
GV II
Hall dated 'R 1659 B' on carved stone at base of chimney stack (now concealed within the roof). Three units long with lobby entry, T-planned with an outshut in the angle rebuilt in brick to 2-storey height in C19. Two storeys with attics. Dressed limestone; red brick rear wing. Plain tiled roofs with ashlar copings to parapets and moulded kneelers. Ridge stack of ashlar with 3 shafts and common moulded entablature. Two hipped dormer windows with iron lattice light'casements. Three first floor C19 replacement cross-framed windows with iron casements and original chamfered and stopped oak lintels; one small casement above door. Three similar ground floor windows of 2 and 3 lights. C18 door with 6 raised and fielded panels; modern porch. Interior has 2 large inglenook hearths with remains of baking oven. Early C18 pine panelling, and chimney piece in hall with some reset panels in parlour end. Similar panelling in 2 rooms of wing. Two C19 staircase. Original butt purlin roofs in both ranges. RCHM Huntingdonshire, p 64. VCH Huntingdonshire, p 38. CRO Huntingdon. Report 1981. E M Davis.
Listing NGR: TL0568770796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399103
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 64
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 38
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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