The Great Barn, at Park Farm, About Half Mile North East of Wimpole
THE GREAT BARN, AT PARK FARM, ABOUT HALF MILE NORTH EAST OF WIMPOLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317761
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Barn, at Park Farm, About Half Mile North East of Wimpole
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREAT BARN, AT PARK FARM, ABOUT HALF MILE NORTH EAST OF WIMPOLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317761
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Barn, at Park Farm, About Half Mile North East of Wimpole
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GREAT BARN, AT PARK FARM, ABOUT HALF MILE NORTH EAST OF WIMPOLE
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:
- THE GREAT BARN, AT PARK FARM, ABOUT HALF MILE NORTH EAST OF WIMPOLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wimpole
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 34079 51408
Details
WIMPOLE PARK OLD WIMPOLE TL 3451 (West side) 14/155 The Great Barn, at Park Farm, about half mile north east of Wimpole Hall
GV II*
Barn. Circa 1800 by Sir John Soane. Restored. Timber framed, weatherboarded on brick plinth. Combed wheat reed roof, half-hipped. Eight bays with two mid-streys on south side. Interior: Jowled heads to posts, braced tiebeams and Queen post roof with bracing struts to principal rafters. Straight wall bracing. Some inserted timber. The barn forms one side of the farmyard and is one of a planned group of farmbuildings built for Earl of Hardwicke.
R.C.H.M.: West Cambs. Mon. (4)
Listing NGR: TL3407951408
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52821
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,
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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