Place House
PLACE HOUSE, THE TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288544
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Place House
- Statutory Address:
- PLACE HOUSE, THE TOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288544
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Place House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLACE HOUSE, THE TOWN
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:
- PLACE HOUSE, THE TOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Staughton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 12317 64680
Details
TL 1264-1364 GREAT STAUGHTON THE TOWN
10/19 PLACE HOUSE 24.10.51
GV II*
Probably built for Sir Oliver Leader between 1539 and 1557 within the moated site of the manor held by the Carthusians until 1537. Originally an irregular H-plan mansion of which only the south wing and cross-wing to the west survive. A single storey gabled wing to the south has been raised to 2-storey height recently when a kitchen wing to the north was also built. Alterations have been made in the early C18 and C19, the fenestration is restored or modern.
Red brick coursed in English bond with plain tile roofs. Parapet gables with triangular sectioned limestone copings.
South facade of main wing and cross-wing to west, 2 storeys. Three ridge stacks, one end stack to cross-wing and one side stack with crow-stepped off sets to east. Five first floor, 2 and 3-light splay-mullioned windows with moulded labels and leaded lights, 2 to east may be original. Four similar windows, 3 with transomes, at ground floor.- Straight joints from earlier sash window insertions visible. Limestone moulded doorway has a 4-centred arch.
West facade of cross-wing has a loggia of 3 bays with 4-centred arches of 2 chamfered orders with chamfered piers and chamfered plinth. An original 4-light splay- mullioned and transomed window at first floor with moulded label.
The original internal arrangement of rooms was altered in the early C18 and C19 with the exception of the plain newel staircase and the framed partition walls. The open hearths are sealed in the ground floor rooms. There is one complete room of bolection moulded panelling with a corner fireplace, and some panelling in other rooms. One early plank door, and panelled Cl7 door, and C18 raised and fielded panelled doors. The exposed floor frame has chamfered cross-beams with narrow, deep sectioned joists. The side purlin roof of the main wing has curved wind braces in each of the 9 bays. VCH (Hunts) p 354. RCHM (Hunts) p 252. Pevsner, Buildings of England, p 256. Watson, 'History of Great Staughton' 1916, pp 11-17. Huntingdon Record Office, collection of photographs.
Listing NGR: TL1231764680
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399413
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 252
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 354
Watson, , History of Great Staughton, (1916), 11-17
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 256
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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