The Lindens
THE LINDENS, 4, GRACIOUS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227996
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Lindens
- Statutory Address:
- THE LINDENS, 4, GRACIOUS STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/05624/10
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227996
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Lindens
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LINDENS, 4, GRACIOUS STREET
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 LINDENS, 4, GRACIOUS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittlesey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2703797301
Details
TL 2797 WHITTLESEY GRACIOUS STREET
(North Side)
20/85 No. 4
(The Lindens)
GV II
House, early C18 with later C18 additions at the rear. Front and rear walls
timber framed, plaster rendered with contemporary tumbled brick gabled ends,
now painted. Reed thatch roof and end stacks. Front range with kitchen wing
at rear forming an L-plan, with stair turret in angle. Two storeys.
Original architraves to two, three-light casements. Central doorway with
original doorcase, pulvinated frieze and flat canopy with panelled soffit.
Door of six raised and fielded panels and two small glazed upper panels.
Kitchen wing of brick, painted, with steeply pitched reed thatch roof. Other
additions have been made at the back of the main range and one has possibly
had the lean-to roof raised. There is a mid C19 gault brick wash-house and
stable range within the curtilage of the house. Inside there is some exposed
framing and one flight of the staircase with square newel and turned
balusters. The first floor retains the vertical raised and fielded panelling
found also at Nos. 2, 3 The Bower, Whittlesey (q.v.) and No. 11 Claygate
(q.v.).
Listing NGR: TL2703797301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402488
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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