The Old White Horse
THE OLD WHITE HORSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331822
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old White Horse
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD WHITE HORSE, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15486/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331822
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old White Horse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD WHITE HORSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- THE OLD WHITE HORSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stetchworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 64005 58897
Details
TL 65 NW STETCHWORTH HIGH STREET (West Side)
6/156 The Old White Horse
GV II
House, formerly an inn built in 1905 for the Earl of Ellesmere by C.F.A. Voysey. Free style design. Roughcast render to buttressed brick walls with limestone dressings; flared hipped plain tile roof and attic roofs. Slender iron brackets to gutters. Two tall symmetrical ridge stacks. One storey and attic, L-plan. Rear wing, extending as loggia links stables to south-west forming courtyard. Main facade to north-east of four 'bays'; central 'bays' with facade gable and hipped dormer window to left hand. Entrance originally through recessed open porch with braced wooden posts, recently infilled by small-paned glazed doors and fixed windows. Two attic windows, and three ground floor windows, casements of six-five- and four-leaded lights with plain limestone mullions and architraves. Wall and double gated courtyard entrance to north-east with opposing arched entrance with flared hipped roof. Interior details largely unaltered include staircase, panelling, inglenook hearths and rounded arches to openings. VCH, Vol.VI, p.172. Pevsner, Buildings of England, p.461. A. Service, Edwardian Architecture (see Voysey), 1977.
Listing NGR: TL6400558897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49234
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 172
Service, A, Edwardian Architecture a Handbook to Building Design in Britain 1890-1914, (1977)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 461
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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