Manor Farmhouse
MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330849
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330849
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abington Pigotts
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30393 44813
Details
TL 3044 ABINGTON PIGOTTS CHURCH LANE (North-west side) 14/3 Manor Farmhouse 22.ii.57
GV II*
Farmhouse, formerly the manor house. Built by Henry Pigott (d.1588) possibly as an addition to an existing building. Mid C16 with C17 additions and alterations, and C19 and C20 renovation. Timber-framed and plastered with red brick and some reused early medieval limestone plinth; red brick chimney stacks. Plain tiled gabled roofs. Two storeys. Rear service wing forming an L-plan with main range. Central passage to main range continued as a screen passage to rear hall with similar first floor plan perhaps functioning originally as a long gallery. C17 kitchens now demolished with exposed hearth and baking oven to north-west elevation, rear hall divided for dairy and pantry. South-east elevation: Roof with four gables, gable to right hand largest, each gable with folded leaf ornament to barge boards, turned drop finials and one to the centre of each jettied roof bay with a carved head finial to right hand. First floor jetty plastered. Wide doorway with carved leaf spandrels to four-centred arch. Studded boarded oak door. One early C20 three-light casement window to left hand and one large twelve-paned flush-framed hung sash window to right hand; three similar but smaller first floor windows; one attic window. Tiled roof and offsets to guarderobe and to large side chimney stack with pair of cojoined diagonal shafts; small lights to guarderobe. Two late C17 cross framed leaded light casement windows in north-east elevation. Interior: Double ogee chamfered cross beams, main ceiling beams and cornices with leaf stops and run out stops. Substantial close-studded timber-frame. One window with ogee-and hollow-chamfer moulded mullions blocked in north-west elevation. Clunch door jambs to guarderobes. Chimneys recently blocked to south-west rooms. Three doors, two with oak planks and ribs, and one with nine panels and moulded frame. Staircase to roof with some original solid wooden steps. Side purlin roofs with curved wind braces formerly in each bay. The roof of the south-east gable has racked and been rebuilt. Early C19 staircase in main range and replacement doors. The manor house became a farmhouse after 1680 when Granado Pigott removed to Bassingbourn, it is perhaps then that alterations were made to the rear wing. Glass with family coat of arms removed to chancel of Bassingbourn Church. The house is situated within a moated site.
RCHM report 1950 Will Francis Pigott PRO VCH Vol VIII p5 and Litlington Pevsner: Buildings of England P291 Ireland, M Dec History of Abington Pigotts with Litlington, C19 photograph
Listing NGR: TL3039344813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52406
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ireland, M, History of Abington Pigotts with Litlington, ()
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 5
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 291
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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