Clairvoyee, About 20 Yards North of Wimpole Hall

CLAIRVOYEE, ABOUT 20 YARDS NORTH OF WIMPOLE HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330918
Date first listed:
03-Sept-1986
List Entry Name:
Clairvoyee, About 20 Yards North of Wimpole Hall
Statutory Address:
CLAIRVOYEE, ABOUT 20 YARDS NORTH OF WIMPOLE HALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330918
Date first listed:
03-Sept-1986
List Entry Name:
Clairvoyee, About 20 Yards North of Wimpole Hall
Statutory Address 1:
CLAIRVOYEE, ABOUT 20 YARDS NORTH OF WIMPOLE HALL

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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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:
CLAIRVOYEE, ABOUT 20 YARDS NORTH OF WIMPOLE HALL

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Wimpole
National Grid Reference:
TL 33494 51074

Details

WIMPOLE TL 3351

13/139 Clairvoyee, about 20 yards north of Wimpole Hall

GV II Clairvoyee. Late C18, and mid C19. Wrought iron railings on dwarf wall of red brick. In eight bays divided by stone piers and further divided by panels of wrot iron C and S scrolls. The piers are surmounted by C18 lead and stone urns including a pair of larger urns carved with the figure of Pan which flank the mid C19 gates in the centre. The clairvoyee is said to have been designed by Humfrey Repton.

R.C.H.M.: West Cambs. Mon. (2) p.222 C. Hussey: Country Life (May 21, 27 1927)

Listing NGR: TL3349451074

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Legacy System number:
52803
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Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in 21 May, (1927)
Country Life in 27 May, (1927)

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Clairvoyee, About 20 Yards North of Wimpole Hall

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