Wennington Hall
WENNINGTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330491
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wennington Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WENNINGTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330491
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Wennington Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WENNINGTON HALL
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:
- WENNINGTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbots Ripton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 23831 79478
Details
TL 2379 ABBOTS RIPTON WENNINGTON
(North East side)
15/27 Orchard House
II
House. C15 open hall with late medieval crosswinq at south west end, and C16-C17 crosswing at north east end. Timber framed, part exposed and part plaster rendered. Reed thatched roof, hipped to south west crosswing inserted ridge chimney stacks to open hall, now rebuilt above the ridge. Projecting C16 end stack to north east crosswing. Original plan of open hall and south west crosswing with later crosswing now forming a double ended hall house. Open hall of one storey and attic. Metal casements in enlarged or inserted window openings. Doorway in south west wall of open hall. South west crosswing. Two storeys with exposed framing. Four bays and stair turret on north east wall. Wall framing similar to that of Green Farm Cottage, Chestnut Cottage and the Moat House, at Abbots Ripton. Middle rail, weathered frame, jowled post heads and downward wall bracing. On the north west side the sole plate of the south west crosswing is continuous with that of the open hall. The north east crosswing, C16-C17 is of two storeys. Metal casements to both storeys. Interior was not seen.
RCHM: Hunts mon (30)
Listing NGR: TL2383179478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54661
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926)
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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