Avenels
AVENELS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330866
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Avenels
- Statutory Address:
- AVENELS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330866
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Avenels
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVENELS, CHURCH 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.
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:
- AVENELS, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Guilden Morden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27880 44084
Details
TL 2644 GUILDEN MORDEN CHURCH STREET (North-west side) 12/98 2.12.77 No 8 (Avenels)
GV II
Large house. Dated 1680 (VCH) with C18 addition and C19 alterations; remodelled interior c,1900 for Mr Waring of Waring and Gillow with Queen Anne revival details. Timber framed and roughcast render, and painted brick. Plain tiled roofs. Two rebuilt red brick ridge stacks, side stack and two rear stacks. Two storeys with attics, long south-east, north-west range of seven unequal bays with earlier gabled ranges at oblique angles to the rear. Main elevation: Hipped roof with deep modillioned cornice, three flat roofed dormer windows with casements. Entrance porch to left of centre with flat roof and wrought iron balustrade, double six-panelled doors and fanlight with glazing bars in round headed arch. Glazed double door entrances from first floor to balcony. Large bow window to right hand and four transomed casement windows, seven similar first floor windows. Interior: Chamfered ceiling beams, late C17 or early C18 bolection moulded oak panelling of two heights in south room. Early C19 and Queen Anne revival chimney pieces with marble inner surrounds and tiled backs. Balustraded staircase to rear of entrance hall linking the several floor levels. Coved ceiling to rear first floor room.
RCHM report 1950 VCH voi VIII p100 Sale catalogue. 1842 CC
Listing NGR: TL2788044084
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52503
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 100
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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