Castle Farmhouse
CASTLE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331416
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331416
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Camps
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 62648 42429
Details
CASTLE CAMPS CHURCH LANE TL 64 SW 10/61 Castle Farmhouse 22.11.67 (formerly listed as Castle Camps Farmhouse II
House. c1730 with south winy possibly earlier; some remodelling of main front late C18. Reused stone, timber framed roughcast, and plaster rendered. Tiled roofs, hipped to east end of main ranye and wood modillion eaves cornice to the north front. Red brick ridge stacks, rebuilt above the roof. L-plan with a principal range on the east west axis. Basement, two storeys and attic. North front framed by rusticated quoins find divided by a flat band of key pattern with a moulded lower edge carried over the doorcase. There are panels of roughcast render to ground and first floors. On the west side, the attic storey is jettied. Three first floor double hung sashes of twelve panes. A fourth window opening has been blocked. Two ground floor sixteen pane windows. Steps lead up to doorway in moulded doorcase and six panelled door including four glazed panels. Domestic wing to the south of reused stone, plaster rendered. Two storeys and attic. One gable dormer in the attic on west side. Two hung sashes on west side and later C18-early C19 tripartite hugh sash. The east wall of the domestic wing has two reset early C18 hung sashes with original ovolo moulded glazing bars. Interior: stop chamfered main beams in rear range. Main range with early C19 doorcase. Roof of staggered butt purlin type. Nearby is the site of a motte and bailey castle and deserted medieval village. Castle Camps belonged to the De Vere's and was rebuilt more than once. An engraving of 1730 by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck shows a multi gabled house with C15 brick tower. The Charterhouse became owners about 1730and built much of what is standing.
Dr W M Palmer: William Cole of Milton p90 Samuel and Nathaniel Buck: The North East View of Castle Camps in the County Cambridge (private collection) RCHM: record card (1949) VCH: Cambs vol VI p 39 Pevsner: Buildings of England p314
Listing NGR: TL6264842429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51256
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 39
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 314
Buck, S, Buck, N, The North East View of Castle Camps in the County Cambridge, ()
Palmer, W M, William Cole of Milton, (1935), 90
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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