Causeway Farmhouse
CAUSEWAY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267187
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Causeway Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CAUSEWAY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267187
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Causeway Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAUSEWAY FARMHOUSE
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:
- CAUSEWAY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Waterbeach
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 50125 69568
Details
WATERBEACH CHITTERING TL 56 NW 5/145A Causeway Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Circa 1620 with late C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed, plastered and weather boarded. Limestone and brick plinths. Plain tiled roofs; red brick ridge stack. Two storeys with attic to right hand, continuous jetty, three unit ground floor and two unit first floor plan. One storey kitchen wing and outshut to rear. West elevation: rectangular stack with conjoined diagonal shafts, rebuilt upper courses. Jetty cased in weather boarding with two rendered brick pier supports. Main entrance to left hand with boarded door, two ground floor and three first floor windows of various sizes with glazing bars. Interior: Timber frame of five bays, conventional construction with chamfered soffits to main timbers and cyma-stop-chamfers to ceiling beams. Back to back hearths at ground floor blocked by late C18 hearths and cupboards, two first floor hearths with small grates. Staircase C19 rising to attic floor on east of stack. C18 kitchen wing with large gable end stack formerly with a baking oven. The farmhouse is situated on a former fen island, Elmney, historically associated with the Benedictines and Denny Abbey; a Roman road or causeway linked the island with that of Denny Abbey. In 1548 after the Dissolution of the Abbey the site was leased to Edward Elkington. Ravensdale J Liable to Flood, 1974.
Listing NGR: TL5012569568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50710
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ravensdale, J R, Liable to Flood, (1974)
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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