Heydon House

HEYDON HOUSE, HEYDON LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330968
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1980
List Entry Name:
Heydon House
Statutory Address:
HEYDON HOUSE, HEYDON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330968
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1980
List Entry Name:
Heydon House
Statutory Address 1:
HEYDON HOUSE, HEYDON 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
HEYDON HOUSE, HEYDON LANE

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Heydon
National Grid Reference:
TL 43323 40090

Details

TL 4240 HEYDON HEYDON LANE (North Side) 22/160 Heydon House 20. 8.80 II House. Early C19. Stuccoed brick with red brick stacks; low pitched hipped slated roofs. Two storeys with cellars; five 'bay' facade to south with recessed service-wing to west of two 'bays'. Five tall rectangular planned stacks each with three rectangular shafts and common entablatures. Deep boarded eaves; band between floors on south facing elevation with centre 'bay' slightly advanced; garden entrance approached by stone steps with French casement and patterned fanlight in continuous moulded round headed arch. Seven recessed first floor and ground floor hung sash windows with slender glazing bars. Main entrance in north facing elevation; large glazed panelled-door, open portico with slender Doric columns. Interior with original details. The house is built on the site of the manor house and is enclosed on north, east and west sides by a moat. Wrights, History of Essex, Vol. II, p185, 1835 Fulton Roberts, G. A History of Heydon, 1957 R.C.H.M. Report 1958

Listing NGR: TL4332340090

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
52974
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Roberts, G F, History of Heydon, (1957)
Wrights, , History of Essex, (1835), 185

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 Heydon House

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