Cranbrook House

CRANBROOK HOUSE, 73, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330729
Date first listed:
30-May-1958
List Entry Name:
Cranbrook House
Statutory Address:
CRANBROOK HOUSE, 73, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330729
Date first listed:
30-May-1958
Date of most recent amendment:
04-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:
Cranbrook House
Statutory Address 1:
CRANBROOK HOUSE, 73, HIGH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CRANBROOK HOUSE, 73, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Earith
National Grid Reference:
TL 38452 74816

Details

EARITH HIGH STREET 1. 5140 (north side) No 73 (Cranbrook House) (formerly listed as House 25 yards east of George Inn) TL 38 74 18/12 30.5.58 II GV

2. Circa 1800, house. Gault brick, steeply pitched slate roof with tumbled parapet gables and end stacks. Two-storeys and attics. Flat-roofed dormers with horizontal sliding sash windows. Front symmetrical three window range of recessed hung sashes with glazing bars in cambered, gauged brick arches with 'rusticated' darker brick jambs. Similar windows flank central doorway. Doorcase with fluted, engaged columns, reeded capitals and dentil bracketed cornice supporting a broken triangular pediment. Panelled reveals and arch to doorway, semi-circular fanlight and six panelled door. Later service wing to left hand, one-storey with an enclosed servants staircase projecting above the ridge to the right hand. Dentil eaves cornice. Two recessed hung sash windows with glazing bars to left of double, flush-panelled doors in cambered gauged, brick arch. Early C19 two-storey range to rear. Gault brick hipped slate roof. First-floor range of five hung sash windows with glazing bars in gauged brick arches. Five full-length casement windows at ground floor. Interior of main building has first-floor bedrooms with gable walls panelled, original shouldered chimney pieces flanking cupboards with two panelled doors. Original early C19 chimney pieces and open-string staircase in later building.

Listing NGR: TL3845274816

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
53834
Legacy System:
LBS

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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