Nine Chimneys House
NINE CHIMNEYS HOUSE, 19, NINE CHIMNEYS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331390
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Nine Chimneys House
- Statutory Address:
- NINE CHIMNEYS HOUSE, 19, NINE CHIMNEYS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331390
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Nine Chimneys House
- Statutory Address 1:
- NINE CHIMNEYS HOUSE, 19, NINE CHIMNEYS 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:
- NINE CHIMNEYS HOUSE, 19, NINE CHIMNEYS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Balsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 58516 50966
Details
BALSHAM NINE CHIMNEYS LANE TL 5850 11/25 Nine Chimneys 22.ll.67 House (No 19) II House. Late C16. Exposed timber frame and tiled roof. Red brick stack at west end has three flues with C20 shafts of moulded red brick. Side stack to north wall with three similar stacks. Originally the south cross wing of a late C16 double ended hall house. The hall and north crossing have been demolished. Three bays. Two storeys and attics. Two gable dormers. Leaded light casements at doorway to centre bay. Inside: One of the hearths retains the original opening of clunch with four centred and chamfered arch. Others are of red brick and some repaired. Two first floor chambers originally painted. A fragment remains in the east wall. Slide purlin roof. The house was probably built in c.1583 for Thomas Sutton, the Master of the Ordnance to Queen Elizabeth I.
V.C.H. Cambs Vol VI p 129 W. Sanders: Nine Chimneys House, Balsham Pevsner: Buildings of England C.R.O: Enclosure Award Map 1806
Listing NGR: TL5851650966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51226
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 129
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954)
Sanders, W, Nine Chimneys House Balsham, ()
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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