Mansion House

Mansion House, 11, Market Place, Whittlesay,, PE7 1AB

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1228131
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1970
List Entry Name:: Mansion House
Statutory Address:: Mansion House, 11, Market Place, Whittlesay,, PE7 1AB

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Date:: 2002-04-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1228131
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1970
List Entry Name:: Mansion House
Statutory Address 1:: Mansion House, 11, Market Place, Whittlesay,, PE7 1AB

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: Mansion House, 11, Market Place, Whittlesay,, PE7 1AB

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:: TL 27023 97006

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 April 2024 to update the name and address, amend description due to change in building use and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 2797; TL 2796 20/109; 22/109

WHITTLESEY MARKET PLACE (south side) No. 11, Mansion House

(Formerly listed as No. 10 (Post Office), MARKET PLACE)

31. 7.70 II* House, post office at time of listing, later converted into apartments. Early C18. Brick, Flemish bond, with gauged red brick to dressings and details. Parapetted roof with swept end parapets and original end stacks. Double pile main range with kitchen wing at rear. Three storeys. Symmetrical facade framed by giant corner pilasters, dentil main cornice and divided by moulded brick bands. Ranges of five recessed hung sashes with arched top panes in gauged arches with rusticated surrounds and having stone sills and red brick apron panels. Central doorway with original doorcase of broken segmental pediment on fluted pilasters with entablature. Door now half glazed but four original raised and fielded panels to lower half. Rear wall rendered but with similar corner pilasters and a coved eaves. Segmental arch and open boxing to a hung sash to the staircase window. The kitchen wing is contemporary. Possibly timber framed, more likely brick with upper gable end framed. Steeply pitched roof. Two storeys and attic. C20 fenestration to gable end on site of original but with some enlargement. Later C18 addition at the rear has a C19 slate, lean-to roof and an original panelled door.

Inside: at both ground and first floors there are original doorways with doors of eight raised and fielded panels in segmental arches. There is a fine open-string staircase of four flights and landings with three symmetrical balusters to each tread, clusters of similar balusters as newels, scroll tread ends and a swept rail, renewed. The staircase dado has raised and fielded panelling with fluted pilasters.

Listing NGR: TL2704197003

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Legacy System number:: 402675
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 483

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.