Ely House
Ely House, 158, Lynn Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331636
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Ely House
- Statutory Address:
- Ely House, 158, Lynn Road
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331636
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Ely House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ely House, 158, Lynn Road
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:
- Ely House, 158, Lynn Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wisbech
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 46733 10384
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 September 2021 to reformat text to current standards
TF 41 SE
2/82
WISBECH
LYNN ROAD (South Side)
No. 158 (Ely House)
GV
II
Early C18 farmhouse. Local brown brick, pantiled roof with high tumbled parapet gables, end stacks. Two storeys with attics, symmetrical facade of five 'bays'. L-plan. Three flat roofed casement dormer windows. Five original cross-framed casement windows at first floor and four, similar, ground floor windows in segmental arches. Late C18 doorcase with attached wooden columns and enriched broken pediment, plain round headed fanlight and six-panelled door. Rear, two storey extension in angle dated 1854 on plaque with red pantiled roof and two roof, gable extensions. Windows with C19 brick labels.
Interior has complete panelled room to right hand, with good late C18 chimney piece. Sealed kitchen hearth in rear wing. C19 staircase and service wing with dairy to east. Chimney pieces with Lambeth tiles, and tiled cupboard in service wing. Original kitchen door with iron hinges.
Pevsner, Buildings of England, p.497.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
Listing NGR: TF4673310384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48279
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 242
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 497
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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