Priory Cottage the Priory

PRIORY COTTAGE, 26, CHURCH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1309265
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:
Priory Cottage the Priory
Statutory Address:
PRIORY COTTAGE, 26, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1309265
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1982
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:
Priory Cottage the Priory
Statutory Address 1:
PRIORY COTTAGE, 26, CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
THE PRIORY, 24, HIGH STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PRIORY COTTAGE, 26, CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address:
THE PRIORY, 24, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Holywell-cum-Needingworth
National Grid Reference:
TL 34161 72103

Details

In the entry for HOLYWELL-CUM-NEEDINGWORTH HIGH STREET
7/2 (north side)
Needingworth

No 26 (The Priory) and
No 26 (Priory Cottage)

the address shall be amended to read HOLYWELL FRONT
(north side)
Needingworth

No 24 (The Priory) and
No 26 (Priory Cottage)

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HOLYWELL-CUM-NEEDINGWORTH HIGH STREET
1.
5140
(north side)
Needingworth
No 26 (The Priory) and
TL 37 SW 7/2 No 26 (Priory Cottage)
II GV
2.
C17, early C18 and early C19 farmhouse, now two dwellings. Earliest range to rear of
two-storeys, timber-framed and rendered. Corrugated asbestos roof, reduced central
ridge stack of local brick. Doorcase of plain pilasters and entablature with boss
enrichment, projecting cornice and six panelled door. C18 cross-wing parallel to road
of two-storeys, rendered brick with kneelers to parapet gable and end stack to left
hand. Plain tiled roof. Range of four modern casement windows at both floors. Two-
storey block to right hand, rendered brick with facade parapet and hipped slate roof.
Range of three first-floor hung sash windows with glazing bars and margin lights.
Three similar ground-floor windows originally full length. Six panelled door to left
hand with plain pilasters entablature and reveals. Rectangular fanlight.


Listing NGR: TL3416172103

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
54037
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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