Clock Tower Lock Up
CLOCK TOWER, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309432
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower Lock Up
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER, HIGH STREET
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- 2000-06-04
- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309432
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower Lock Up
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOCK TOWER, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- LOCK UP, 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:
- CLOCK TOWER, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- LOCK UP, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fenstanton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 31492 68446
Details
FENSTANTON HIGH STREET 1. 5140 (south side) Clock Tower and Lock Up TL 31 68 19/35 24.10.51 II GV 2. At junction with Hilton Road. Late C17 clock tower and lock up. Square plan and two-storeys. Red brick with yellow brick rusticated quoins, ashlar plinth. Restored hipped slate roof with wooden louvred bell turret with round arches on each face surmounted by weather vane. Dentil brick eaves cornice. Two plank doors to north and south. One sealed first-floor window and one fixed light with glazing bars in segmental arch. Bell cast by Thomas Norris in 1660 or 1666 (VCH). Clock with octagonal face on east wall from Conington Hall, Cambs. (Inskip Ladds Records, Norris Museum, St Ives, RCHM Huntingdonshire p 92 Mon 3).
Listing NGR: TL3149268446
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53877
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 92
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1948)
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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