48, Grange Road
48, Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268364
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 48, Grange Road
- Statutory Address:
- 48, Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268364
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 48, Grange Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 48, Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DH
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:
- 48, Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 44015 58205
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 July 2023 to remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards
TL 4458
667- /16/10049
CAMBRIDGE
GRANGE ROAD (east side)
No.48
II
House. c.1880 probably by Basil Champneys. Converted to student residences late 1940s. Red brick laid in English bond; machine tile roof. Principal facade to south. Two storeys and dormer attic in four-window range. Centre two bays recessed and lit through two 6/6 unhorned sashes to each floor. Scalloped sash hoods. Plain aprons to ground-floor windows, ogeed aprons above. One circular window to each floor to right and left of sashes, with keyblocks. These light fireplace inglenooks. Outer bays each with a full-height canted timber bay window consisting of central two-light casements beneath an arched light with radial glazing bars. Six/six unhorned sashes either side. Ground-floor casements developed into French windows. Panelled frieze between the storeys, and a pediment over ground floor. Gabled roof. Wide weatherboarded gable-ends over the outer bays, each with one two-light casement. Central gabled dormer fitted with a four-light casement. Twin panelled stacks on ridge. Symmetry of north elevation compromised by early C20 extension to left. One central tripartite window to each floor of same design as south front, similar gabled dormer in roof. Doorway set to right under deep coved hood.
INTERIOR: principal room to south-west corner on ground floor: eared timber chimneypiece with scrolled bifurcated decoration and panelled mantel shelf. Panelled overmantel. Inglenook created by screen of panelled pilasters supporting a frieze. Open string staircase with turned balusters.
Listing NGR: TL4401558205
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461898
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M, Sweetness And Light, the Queen Anne Movement 1860 -1900, (1977 ), 125
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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