Bottisham Hall
BOTTISHAM HALL, TUNBRIDGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331430
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bottisham Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BOTTISHAM HALL, TUNBRIDGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331430
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bottisham Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOTTISHAM HALL, TUNBRIDGE 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:
- BOTTISHAM HALL, TUNBRIDGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bottisham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 55141 61644
Details
TL 56 SE BOTTISHAM TUNBRIDGE LANE (North Side) 4/27 Bottisham Hall
II
Country house built 1797 for Rev G L Jenyns possibly by Charles Humfrey. Grey brick with low pitch, hipped roofs of slate, with boarded eaves and boxed guttering. Ridge stacks. U-plan, with later service wings at rear. Two storeys. The principal elevation is to the South and is in three bays, including the projecting, half-round entrance bay. Semi-circular headed arch to the doorway with half-glazed, double doors and a fanlight with radial glazing bars. The flanking, recessed hung sashes to this bay are of twelve panes. Three similar windows at first floor have cast-iron balconettes. The two outer bays have, at ground floor, semi-circular arches to recessed window bays, each with a hung sash of fifteen panes in a flat, gauged brick arch. The side elevation to the garden is in seven bays, with similar fenestration and hung sashes of fifteen panes at ground floor. one window retains its original pelmet. Inside, the hall is approximately oval in plan with two round headed niches in the corners. The two principal rooms flanking the hall have original, plaster mouldings and fireplaces in white marble. There is a cantilevered, open-string staircase with a curtail and square balusters leading up to a landing with a screen of Ionic columns. Charles Humfrey also designed the Vicarage at Swaffham Bulbeck.
R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p6, mon (4) Pevsner: Buildings of England, p305
Listing NGR: TL5514161644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49298
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 305
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
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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