Willow House
WILLOW HOUSE, CONDUIT HEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1331936
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Willow House
- Statutory Address:
- WILLOW HOUSE, CONDUIT HEAD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1331936
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Willow House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLOW HOUSE, CONDUIT HEAD 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:
- WILLOW HOUSE, CONDUIT HEAD ROAD
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 42869 59393
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
CONDUIT HEAD ROAD TL 45 NW 20/10005 Willow House GV II* House. 1932 by George Checkley. White-painted render to reinforced concrete structure. Flat bitumenised roof behind parapet. Plan: International Modern style house of 2 storeys with study on right (west) and kitchen and services on left (east) with split-level one-and-a-half storey hall/living room at centre with bedroom over rising above flat roof terraces. Later single storey extension on right (west). Exterior: 2 storeys. 5 tall symmetrically arranged windows on first floor and window bands on ground floor with rendered porch to right of centre with cantilevered canopy. South garden front 4 window bands on ground floor, that to left of centre with French casement and thinner window bands on first floor; the bay to left of centre with thin window band under cantilevered balcony to window above in raised bedroom. This bedroom and stair block has a flat roof canopy onto the roof terrace. All metal-frame windows with casements. Including terrace along south front with rendered parapet and steps down to garden. Interior: Largely unaltered and retaining most of original glazed steel frame doors. From the 2-storey split-level hall/living room a masonry winder stairs with low solid balustrade rises to axial passage along north front of house with a glazed balcony overlooking the hall/living room. Second flight of stairs from landing to roof terrace. Note: formerly known as Thurso House. Source: Buildings of England, Cambridgeshire, page 255.
Listing NGR: TL4286959393
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47924
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 255
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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