King William IV Public House

KING WILLIAM IV PUBLIC HOUSE, 1 AND 3, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330755
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:
King William IV Public House
Statutory Address:
KING WILLIAM IV PUBLIC HOUSE, 1 AND 3, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330755
Date first listed:
04-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:
King William IV Public House
Statutory Address 1:
KING WILLIAM IV PUBLIC HOUSE, 1 AND 3, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KING WILLIAM IV PUBLIC HOUSE, 1 AND 3, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Fenstanton
National Grid Reference:
TL 31459 68491

Details

FENSTANTON HIGH STREET 1. 5140 (south side) Nos 1 and 3 (King William IV Public House) TL 31 68 19/33 II GV 2. Formerly C17 inn and C18 cottage now one building. Two-storey cottage to right hand. Soft red brick, rear wall part timber-framed. Plain tile roof with right hand end stack. Two first-floor horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars. Similar large window in segmental arch to left of central six-panelled door. Small hung sash window in segmental arch to right hand. Interior has original hearth and boxed stair, and chimney piece of C17 carved panels. C17 inn to left hand. Original three-unit plan with walls raised in C18. Cartway to right hand. Colour-washed brick casing to timber-frame, plain tile roofs and central ridge stack. Four flat-roofed dormer windows with horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars. One horizontal sliding sash, and canted bay window with hung sashes and glazing bars to right hand of half- glazed door. Modern single-storey extension to left hand gable, colour-washed brick and plain tile hipped roof. Interior: C18 hearths and ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: TL3145968491

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
53876
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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