York House
YORK HOUSE, BLUNTISHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309510
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- York House
- Statutory Address:
- YORK HOUSE, BLUNTISHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309510
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- York House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YORK HOUSE, BLUNTISHAM ROAD
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:
- YORK HOUSE, BLUNTISHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colne
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37124 75769
Details
COLNE BLUNTISHAM ROAD 1. 5140 (west side) York House TL 37 NE 5/22 II GV 2. Built in 1844, date on rain water head (recently removed). Double pile plan with two projecting wings and central rear kitchen window. Two-storeys. Gault brick; shallow pitched modern tile roofs half-hipped to wings. Stone steps lead up to central porch spanning facade between wings, with tented roof and cast iron trellis with Greek anthemion motif. Recessed, four-panelled door and side lights. Door- case with panelled reveals, panelled pilasters and moulded freize. Segmental arched fanlight with glazing bars in gauged brick arch, symmetrical first-floor range of three hung sashes, with glazing bars and margin lights in cambered ganged brick arches. Two ground floor French casement windows with glazing bars and margin lights in each wing. Cast-iron trellised porch to garden door in left hand wing. Garden wall with terminating brick piers with stone caps and ball finials. Interior: Intact, with original four-panelled doors and chimney pieces. Fine, free- standing open-string staircase with mahogany handrails and cast-iron balusters. Some original C19 wallpaper in garden lobby of south wing.
Listing NGR: TL3712475769
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53815
- 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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