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THE CASTLE

THE CASTLE, CHURCH LANE, LEIGHTON BROMSWOLD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1330513
Date first listed:: 20-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: THE CASTLE
Statutory Address:: THE CASTLE, CHURCH LANE, LEIGHTON BROMSWOLD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1330513
Date first listed:: 20-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: THE CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: THE CASTLE, CHURCH LANE, LEIGHTON BROMSWOLD

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:: THE CASTLE, CHURCH LANE, LEIGHTON BROMSWOLD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Leighton
National Grid Reference:: TL 11668 75210

Details

TL 1075 22/69

LEIGHTON BROMSWOLD, CHURCH LANE (North-east side), The Castle

21.7.51

GV II*

House, formerly a vicarage and originally a gatehouse. 1616 by Sir Gervaise Clifton to designs by John Thorpe (Soane Museum). Altered as a dwelling mid C17 and later perhaps c.1700, with modifications and additions c.1904 by the Church Commissioners, reusing material from Stow Longa Manor House, Cambridgeshire. Walls of red brick coursed in English bond with stone dressings; plain tiled roofs and leaded flats with internal chimney stacks. Original gatehouse plan a rectangular block with central carriageway flanked by two rooms with chambers above, and four square towers at each angle of three storeys; C17 alterations include the blocking of the archway, the enlargement of the flanking rooms (foundations of original walls discovered in 1904) with baking oven and hearth built to north-east, since demolished. A porch added to south-west elevation in 1904, and service rooms to the north-west. South-west elevation: Blocked round arch to carriageay with faceted key block and moulded imposts flanked by Doric columns on pedestals supporting an entablature with triglyphs and rosettes on the frieze, enriched pilasters above capped by ball finials with a stone balustrade between, and with either missing balusters or stone crests (VCH). Enlarged inserted first floor mullioned windows, the central ovolo mullioned window c.1904. Towers with stone quoins to the first floor and moulded plinth and string courses at each floor level. Ground and first floor windows with hollow-chamfered mullions and transomes, and similar second floor windows without transomes; pyramidal roofs perhaps originally with weather-vane finials. North-west elevation: Similar to south-west without balustrade and with inserted bow window into blocked carriageway, (a stone cill of a former C17 window lies nearby). Interior: Altered in 1904 by the insertion of chimney stacks and stone chimney pieces, stone door heads, and rebuilt oak staircase from Stow Longa Manor House. A finely carved beam inserted above the bow window is said to have come from the building (possibly from the projecting south-east bay when raised in 1904 to two storeys). At first floor a number of c.1700 two-panelled doors with original hinges. The gatehouse was part of an original plan to build a large house within the rectangular moated site to the north-east, whether this was achieved or not is uncertain. The plans for both the house and the gatehouse by John Thorpe survive. It is possible that the gatehouse was converted to a dwelling shortly after the death of Sir Gervaise Clifton.

RCHM Huntingdonshire p130 VCH Huntingdonshire p86 Pevsner Buildings of England p282 Thomas Norton's map 1660 RO John Thorpe Collection: Soane Museum

Listing NGR: TL1166875210

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 54788
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 130
Page, W, Proby, G , The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 86
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 282
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,

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