Glebe House
GLEBE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330864
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330864
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEBE HOUSE
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:
- GLEBE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shingay cum Wendy
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32306 47617
Details
TL 34 NW SHINGAY-CUM-WENDY WENDY
2/192 Glebe House (formerly 22.11.67 listed as 'The Wendy')
GV II*
House formerly the rectory, by Thomas Windsor c.1828 with later C19 service wing and porch. Timber-framed and plastered with imitation masonry joints. Hipped slate roofs. Two gault brick stacks. Gault brick plinth. Main range, two storeys with symmetrical three 'bay' facade, three storey service range recessed to north-east. Deep panelled eaves. Closed porch, semi elliptical plan, with glazed door and fanlight, reeded pilasters and moulded cornice. Two ground floor and three similar first floor segmental bay windows with reeded architraves and with pointed glazing bars to the upper lights. Windows to service wing with pointed arches and with glazing bars in fixed light above casement windows. Panelled side door with pointed arched side lights. Interior: Reed moulded doorcases with corner bosses and moulded panelled doors. Fluted pilastered archways to passage and blind arches to passage doorways. Open string staircase. Original chimney pieces. Tuscan columns to side passage in drawing room with large double doors to dining room. Garden casements in rear elevation.
VCH Vol VIII p.141 dated illustration
Listing NGR: TL3230647617
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52599
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 141
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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