Model Farmhouse

MODEL FARMHOUSE, BRINGTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1222957
Date first listed:
09-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Model Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
MODEL FARMHOUSE, BRINGTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1222957
Date first listed:
09-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Model Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
MODEL FARMHOUSE, BRINGTON 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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
MODEL FARMHOUSE, BRINGTON ROAD

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Old Weston
National Grid Reference:
TL 09816 77350

Details

TL 0877 OLD WESTON BRINGTON ROAD (West side)

17/77 Model Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Early C17 and C19 with later alterations and repair. Painted local red brick, timber-framed with plaster and brick infill. C20 brick repair. C20 plain tiled roof hipped to return. Two storeys with attics and cellar. L-plan. Large gable end stack to south-west with rebuilt chimney, brick band returned to main elevation. North-west elevation: Four bays, one brick bay to left hand and three timber-framed bays with substantial posts and straight braces to middle rail. C20 brick corbel similar to original in rear elevation. Main entrance to left of centre with six-panelled door approached by stone steps. Tripartite hung sash window to left hand and three-light casement window to right hand; one first floor three-light casement window, and opening to cellar with segmental arched brick head. Interior: Original closed string staircase with symmetrically turned balusters and octagonal newel posts, one terminating at attic floor with ball finial. Moulded ceiling beams with ovolo-mouldings. C17 oak panelling refitted in first floor room and over mantel to chimney piece in south-west room with stopped ovolo-moulded jambs and four-centred arched head. Original butt purlin roof with purlins carried in front of the principal rafters and wind-braced in each bay, (the roof has been rebuilt to the south-east). C19 details included raised-and fielded-panelled doors. The farmhouse was possible built by Thomas Parratt who purchased the property in 1593 (VCH).

RCHM: Huntingdonshire p290 VCH: Huntingdonshire p117

Listing NGR: TL0981677350

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
54796
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 290
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 117

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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