Brook Farmhouse
BROOK FARMHOUSE, 14, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330938
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK FARMHOUSE, 14, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330938
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK FARMHOUSE, 14, CHAPEL 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:
- BROOK FARMHOUSE, 14, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fowlmere
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 42240 45581
Details
TL 4245 FOWLMERE CHAPEL LANE (South Side) 18/104 No 14 (Brook Farmhouse) GV II Farmhouse now a house. Early C16, mid to late C17 alterations and rebuilding, late C19 extensions. Timber-framed and plastered with red brick rear wing unified with existing building in south elevation by cased red brick over timber-frame. Plain tiled roofs. Two rectangular planned stacks behind the ridge and rear stacks. Two storeys and attic with lower two storey range of original C16 building to left hand and rear wing to right hand extended forming long L-plan. West elevation; coved plastered eaves cornice to right hand range with gabled lean-to porched entrance and panelled door; panelled architrave and hood with shaped brackets from this doorway resited to perhaps original lobby entry position to left hand. Four C20 ground floor casement windows and three first floor casement windows. Interior: C16 range to left hand of two timber-framed bays with ground floor frame grooved, perhaps for boards, and with chamfered and stopped square sectioned crown post over central truss; originally unheated it may have been a warehouse or floored barn (qv the Old Manor House). Main range and rear wing with pine frame and perhaps reused late C16 floor frame with heavily roll-moulded cross beams. Two relined fireplaces. V.C.H., Vol. VI, p.160 R.C.H.M. Report 1949
Listing NGR: TL4224045581
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52917
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 160
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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