Park House
PARK HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390071
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Park House
- Statutory Address:
- PARK HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390071
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-2002
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Oct-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Park House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK HOUSE, 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:
- PARK HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 42570 51217
Details
220/0/10021
03-OCT-02
HARSTON
HIGH STREET
Park House
GV
II
House. Dated 1854. For the Hurrell family. Gault brick with stone dressings and plain tile roof with ornamental ridge and side stacks. Tudor style with stone framed wooden mullion and transom windows and hood moulds with finely carved foliage stops. Irregular plan with many gables. 2 storeys and attic. Entrance front has four facing gables, that to left with projecting bay and 3-light window over and narrow slit in attic. Next gable has doorway and plank door up steps within moulded arch and with ogee-headed window over. Following gable has 2-light windows on both floors with further 2-light in attic and gable to right has 2 2-light windows on ground floor with square bay oriel above supported on decorated bracket and then a narrow slit in attic. Single-light window in single-storey section to right. Right end has service entrance within open verandah and other fenestration. Left end has large side stack with carved stone panel dated 1854 and containing initials of the Hurrell family. Gable facing left has square battlemented bay with 3-light window over and small trefoil in attic. Rear has canted bay with pentice roof and large small-paned staircase window and various other windows with two attic gables.
INTERIOR. The little altered interior has moulded cornices and skirtings, four-panel doors and moulded stone fireplaces with cast-iron grates. Other features include, in the entrance hall, a patterned tile floor and open well staircase with panelled balustrade with pierced decorative panels. In the drawing room the fireplace has foliage carving and there is a pierced cornice and ceiling rose. Another reception room has a fireplace beneath a window. Service area has staircase with stick balustrade, rooms with fitted cupboards and shelving, and there is a complete set of service bells.
This fine quality and little altered house forms a group with the coach house and stable block to north (qv).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489041
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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