MIDDLEFIELD AND GARDEN WALL

MIDDLEFIELD AND GARDEN WALL, HAVERHILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1317370
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: MIDDLEFIELD AND GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address:: MIDDLEFIELD AND GARDEN WALL, HAVERHILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1317370
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: MIDDLEFIELD AND GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address 1:: MIDDLEFIELD AND GARDEN WALL, HAVERHILL ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MIDDLEFIELD AND GARDEN WALL, HAVERHILL ROAD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Stapleford
National Grid Reference:: TL 47991 52892

Details

TL 45 SE STAPLEFORD HAVERHILL ROAD (North West Side) Middlefield and 5/199 Garden Wall

II*

House, 1908 by Lutyens for the legal scholar Henry Bond. Small, narrow red brick with big, hipped roofs, tiled, and deep eaves, part boarded on south side. Guttering enriched with acorn inials. Three tall internal stalks, the outer ones having recessed centre panels and all with moulded stone cornices to entablatures. Symmetrical plan of single range having lower flanking wings projecting as crosswings on the north side. Lower adjoining service wings to the east. Two storeys and attic. North elevation has two hipped dormers on either side of one segmental dormer, all with leaded lights. Range of flush frame hung sashes with half round moulded glazing bars and open boxing. Pedimented central doorway with doorcase of pilasters with pulvinated frieze. Above and forming a single composition with the doorway is a larger, similar hung sash with a swept surround and flanking pilasters. The crosswings have moulded brick band and bulls eye windows with leaded lights. The south side to the garden has two, two-storey canted bays flanking three similar hung sashes, the ground floor ones in segmental arches. Three hipped dormers in the roof, flanked by original oval, glazed panels. The wings have one tripartite hung sash to each storey except for the right hand wing which has a loggia. Adjoining to the east is an original garden wall, shaped and in three bays with part red brick piers and tiled coping. Interior: Most of the details from the original house have remained intact, including the fireplace surrounds on the ground floor and the staircase with its turned balusters and large single, twisted column as a stair pillar. Weaver L: Houses and Gardens by E.L. Lutyens (p.232) Hussey C: Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens Pevsner: (Buildings of England) p.459 V.C.H: Vol VIII p.229

Listing NGR: TL4799152892

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 51608
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hussey, C, Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, (1950)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 459
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 229
Weaver, L, Houses and Gardens by EL Lutyens, (1981), 232

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.