16-24, FITZWILLIAM STREET
16-24, FITZWILLIAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331858
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 16-24, FITZWILLIAM STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 16-24, FITZWILLIAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1331858
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 16-24, FITZWILLIAM STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16-24, FITZWILLIAM 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:
- 16-24, FITZWILLIAM STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45029 57928
Details
FITZWILLIAM STREET 1. 942 (North Side) Nos 16 to 24 (consec) TL 4557 NW 10/45 II GV 2. Early C19 terrace of small houses. 3 storeys with attics and basements; gault brick; parapets; slate roofs; flat brick arches to windows, glazing bars; balconies with pleasant wrought iron railings; round-headed doorways, many with original flush panelled doors and ornamental metal fanlights. Simple iron railing in front of basement area with vases on stanchions. No 22 with panel "Charles Darwin lived here 1836-7". Good example of early C19 terraced houses. Roofs not visible. (RCHM 244). All the listed buildings in Fitzwilliam Street form a group.
Listing NGR: TL4502957928
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47430
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)
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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