74A, Broad Street
74A, Broad Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252455
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 74A, Broad Street
- Statutory Address:
- 74A, Broad Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252455
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 74A, Broad Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 74A, Broad 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:
- 74A, Broad Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ely
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5430879968
Details
TL 57 NW
2/240
ELY
BROAD STREET
No.74A
II
House. Circa mid C19. Gault brick in Flemish bond with freestone quoins, window arches and cills. Slate hipped roof with deep eaves, corbel capitals at corners, the left and front with lion mark below.
Two-room plan main block has small ground floor rooms with entrance passage between to stairs tower behind left room, rising to principal rooms on the first floor, 'piano nobile', and chambers above. Separate front doorway into two storey, one-room plan service wing on left with outshut on side.
Three storeys symmetrical three-bay main block; all windows with keyed stone lintels. Central doorway with stuccoed architrave with large acanthus console brackets, flat canopy, four-panel door and small overlight. Two C20 metal casements on ground floor; two large fixed windows on first floor, each with nine main panes plus traceried elliptical heads; three small two-light casements on second floor; small stone shield below central window. Lower two storey, one window wing on left with two-light casements, ground floor C20 metal replacement and flush panel door on right with rectangular overlight and also with keyed stone lintels. At rear broad slightly advanced stair tower on right with narrow window and two round-headed side windows, one blocked.
Interior: much of the original C19 joinery survives including staircase with stick balusters, turned newel and moulded handrail and panelled doors.
Note: reputedly built for Edmund Caxton, Clerk to Ely Union of Guardians in 1883, which could alternatively be the date of the service wing possibly also the stair tower. Later in C19 occupied by one of the cathedral organists.
Source: Information provided by Cambridgeshire County Council.
Listing NGR: TL5430879968
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435472
- 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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