Kings Cliffe House

KINGS CLIFFE HOUSE, 31, WEST STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1357419
Date first listed:
12-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Kings Cliffe House
Statutory Address:
KINGS CLIFFE HOUSE, 31, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1357419
Date first listed:
12-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Kings Cliffe House
Statutory Address 1:
KINGS CLIFFE HOUSE, 31, WEST 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KINGS CLIFFE HOUSE, 31, WEST STREET

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

District:
North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
King's Cliffe
National Grid Reference:
TL 00536 97196

Details

KINGS CLIFFE WEST STREET TL0097 (South side) 12/160 No.31 (Kings Cliffe House) GV II House. Mid C18 remodelled and extended early and late C19. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Originally 2-unit plan with central hall, now irregular L-shape. 2 storeys with attic. 5-window range of leaded casements at first floor. Centre 3-windows are under stone lintels with keyblocks. Window to far left is under wood lintel. Pair of C19 canted bay windows, with flat roofs, to ground floor centre. Casement window, to far left. 2-storey, late C19, canted bay window with conical roof, to far right. Central 6-panel door under stone lintel. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers to right. Ashlar stacks at ridge and end. C19 one-bay extension, to left, has casement window with leaded lights, under shallow stone arches. Centre 3-bays have straight joints flanking, indicating extent of C18 house. Rear elevation has some leaded casements under wood lintels, to right, and late C19 gabled ring to left of centre. Interior: early C19 staircase with stick balustrade to upper landing. Arch-head wall cupboard, with panelled doors, in hall. Late C19 carved wooden fire surround in room to far right is by J. J. Bailey a local woodcarver. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p105)

Listing NGR: TL0053697196

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
422478
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)

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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