Stetchworth House
STETCHWORTH HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317755
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Stetchworth House
- Statutory Address:
- STETCHWORTH HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317755
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Stetchworth House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STETCHWORTH HOUSE
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:
- STETCHWORTH HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stetchworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 64168 59092
Details
TL 65 NW STETCHWORTH STETCHWORTH PARK
6/166 Stetchworth House
II
Small country house. Built by Richard Eaton, c.1786, altered 1870. Stuccoed brick, slated roofs. Three storeys with basements, symmetrical double pile plan. Parapet shaped to side stacks and pedimented to north-east elevation. Deep moulded cornice, band at first floor and plinth. Five 'bays', central three 'bays' slightly project. Five second floor and first floor recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows. Four eighteen-paned hung sash windows at ground floor. Original doorway and first floor window in shallow round arched recess, partly masked by large late C19 closed porch with corner pilasters and entablature surmounted by urns. Three, panelled double doors, half- glazed entrance doors. Low wings with balustraded parapet to right and left hand, rebuilt from original service wing and conservatory. Interior (not seen 1983) has geometric planned open string staircase, six panelled doors with moulded architraves and over doors with enriched friezes and cornices. C18 panelling to ground floor rooms. Drawing room chimney piece white panelled, dining room chimney piece Ionic grey marble. Stable block and house alterations attributed to Sir Roger Palmer. RCHM (Cambs notes) 1953. VCH, Vol. VI, p174.
Listing NGR: TL6416859092
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49245
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 174
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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