WALL ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF THE ABBEY

WALL ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF THE ABBEY, ABBEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331452
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: WALL ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF THE ABBEY
Statutory Address:: WALL ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF THE ABBEY, ABBEY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331452
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: WALL ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF THE ABBEY
Statutory Address 1:: WALL ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF THE ABBEY, ABBEY LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: WALL ABOUT 20 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF THE ABBEY, ABBEY LANE

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Swaffham Bulbeck
National Grid Reference:: TL5590363468

Details

TL 5563 14/201 1.12.1951

SWAFFHAM BULBECK ABBEY LANE Wall about 20 yards South East of the Abbey (formerly listed as portion of walling to south of The Priory)

GV II Wall possibly medieval but more probably C18 or C19 re-using material from the Abbey. Flint plinth with clunch and limestone rubble. On the North West are the sites for the joists of the flooring. One end has the chamfered jamb and broach stop of a large doorway opening.

H H Brindley, C.A.S. Proceedings XXXI (1931). R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p101, mon. (2)

Listing NGR: TL5590363468

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Legacy System number:: 49414
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society' in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, , Vol. 31, (1931)
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.