8, MARKET PLACE
8, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228130
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 8, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 8, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
- 2001-10-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/05623/09
- Rights:
- © Mr R. Keith Drewery. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228130
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 8, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 8, MARKET PLACE
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:
- TL2707697018
Details
TL 2797 WHITTLESEY MARKET PLACE
(East Side)
20/107 No. 8
11. 8.50
II
House. Mid C17, c1840 and c1900. Rubblestone, end walls rendered, with some
dressed stone. Steeply pitched Collyweston stone slate roof with end
parapets on kneelers of moulded stone. Wood eaves cornice. End stacks of
dressed stone, square, with entablature, late C17. Two storeys and attic.
Three gabled dormers, each with possibly original leaded light casements.
Ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds to three, three-light casements and one
single light window. The ground floor windows have renewed stone surrounds.
Doorway with early C19 pedimented doorcase of reeded engaged columns with
plain entablature. Six panelled door of two flush and four raised and
fielded panels. Fanlight with glazing bars. C19 cast iron railings to
front. Single storey rear range c1840. Brick with cement tiled roof and
some original casements in pointed arches. In c1900 a wing parallel to the
mid C17 front range was added. Stone with mainly slate roof except for gable
end with Collyweston stone slates. Inside: The original dining-room and
parlour are both panelled. The parlour was remodelled in c1900 when the
hearth was removed and a window to the street was blocked. The panelling in
two heights with the panels divided by fluted pilasters is still intact. A
first floor room is also panelled and has an original bolection moulded
fireplace surround.
Listing NGR: TL2707697018
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402673
- 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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