Glebe House
GLEBE HOUSE, 38, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331225
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE HOUSE, 38, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331225
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEBE HOUSE, 38, HIGH 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:
- GLEBE HOUSE, 38, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbourn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38302 44886
Details
MELBOURN HIGH STREET TL 3844 (North west side) 24/155 No. 38 (Glebe House) II
House, formerly the vicarage. c.1835. Grey brick stuccoed and incised in imitation of stone ashlar. Slate roof, hipped with internal stacks. Double pile plan with offices and services at rear and to left hand. Two storeys. Symmetrical facade of three recessed twelve pane hung sashes framed by clasping corner pilasters. Two steps up to central doorway with narrow hood on enriched console brackets. Double doorway, panelled doors and rectangular fanlight. Round headed arch to staircase window in rear wall. Inside: Vestibule leads to hall with family and service rooms off. Open staircase with stick balusters. Ground floor rooms have one original white marble fireplace and one of grey. Fitted bookcases to one room dated 1853. This was probably the incumbents study and parish room.
Dr. D. Mills: Technique of House repopulation: experience from Cambs. Village 1841. (Local Historian: Vol. 13 No. 2. May 1978). R.C.H.M.: Record Card (1949)
Listing NGR: TL3830244886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52206
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Local Historian in Local Historian, Vol. 13, (1978)
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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