Gaynes Hall
GAYNES HALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288478
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Gaynes Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GAYNES HALL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288478
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Gaynes Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAYNES HALL, HIGH 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:
- GAYNES HALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Perry
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14663 66223
Details
TL 16 NW PERRY HIGH STREET, WEST PERRY
(SOUTH SIDE) 5/8 GAYNES FALL
GV II*
c 1800 country house by George Byfield (c 1765-1813) for Sir James Duberly, now a borstal. Gault brick originally plaster rendered with stone dressings to plinth and parapet. Four parallel linked ranges each with hipped, slate roof of shallow pitch. Stone parapet, having centre panel to south front incised and with rose paterae ornament. Moulded main cornice. Of 3 storeys and 7 bays, including larger central bay. Cambered arches to recessed hung sashes with glazing bars. Ground floor has semi-circular headed arches to 6 recessed bays, each with one full length hung sash. Semi-circular headed arch to centre bay. Pedimented full length casement with glazing bars at first floor above semi-circular ionic portico surmounted by plain wrought iron balustrade. Double doorway in segmental headed arch flanked by pilasters with fluted console brackets to capitals. Glazed doors with side lights and fanlight. Interior. Oval vestibule with flanking round headed niches. Early C19 slender, bolection moulded panelling to ground floor rooms, hall and staircase. Moulded cornice and frieze. Hall top lit with open string staircase of 4 flights. Panelled shutters and 6 panelled doors. South-east room, ground floor, has early C19 white marble fireplace and doorcase with papier mache vine leaf surround. The foundations of the late Cl7 house on the site are visible in the cellars. A ground floor room to the north-east has a late C17 bolection moulded fireplace and a door-case with similar moulding. H Colvin: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840. Pevsner: Buildings of England, p 257.
Listing NGR: TL1466366223
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399547
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 257
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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