Caxton Manor House
CAXTON MANOR HOUSE, 53, ERMINE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1309423
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Caxton Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- CAXTON MANOR HOUSE, 53, ERMINE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1309423
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Caxton Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAXTON MANOR HOUSE, 53, ERMINE 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:
- CAXTON MANOR HOUSE, 53, ERMINE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Caxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3036658315
Details
TL 3058-3158
12/76
31.8.62
CAXTON
ERMINE STREET
(West Side)
No. 53 (Caxton Manor House)
GV
II*
Manor house, at one time The George Coaching Inn. Late C16, refronted in
early C18 with C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick, steeply pitched slate and
plain tile roofs. Two storeys with attics and cellars. Main range to street
with two rear turrets possibly for staircases and closets, arid central
carriageway. Rear wing at obtuse angle to south, partly demolished, and
rebuilt with C20 single storey range. Symmetrical facade to main range of
seven 'bays' with three central 'bays' slightly recessed. Entrance in
original carriageway with floor raised, approached by stone steps with C20
door and sidelights and fanlight in elliptical brick arch with stone keyblock
and imposts. Six ground floor early C18 twelve-paned hung sash windows (with
the exception of one to south replacing C19 doorway), and seven first floor
C19 hung sash windows in cambered brick arches. Four hipped dormer windows
with iron casements. Plain parapet with stone copings interrupted by brick
clock turret dated '1887 VR', with wooden bell canopy, pyramidal roof and
weathervane. Two ridge stacks and end stack to right hand. A number of
sealed late C16 chamfered-mullioned brick windows in side and rear
elevations, some with original plaster rendering, and later window
insertions. One very fine twelve-light mullioned window above carriageway in
rear elevation. C20 entrance to rear of carriageway with panelled oak doors
and multi-light Tudor windows designed by Major J Gedge. Interior:
Chamfered ceiling beams and two large inglenook hearths to south room and
kitchen. Two cellars flanking cartway each with arched recesses and
entrances from rear turrets, moulded cross-beams in cellar to north. C19
staircases in both rear turrets; C18 and C19 partitions and doorcases. The
manor house faces the original market site; the rear wing is built beside a
boundary that followed the ancient strips of the open fields.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs., p37, mon.8
Pevsner. Buildings of England, p315
V.C.H., Vol. V, pp26, 27, 32.
Brown J, Caxton Now and Then 1984
Listing NGR: TL3036658315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51104
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 26 27 32
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 315
Brown, J, Caxton Now and Then, (1984)
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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