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Grade: II
Listing Date: 03/06/09
Description:
No.15 Townsend is an early C18 three-celled house based on an existing medieval burgage plot and as such is a rare and important survival of an otherwise redundant L-plan town house.
MATERIALS
The house is constructed of a timber-frame with lath and plaster or brick-infill and is pebbledashed to the exterior; the late C19 south extension is of brick and the gabled roofs are clad with late C20th concrete tiles.
Farmhouse. Early C19. Gault brick. Slate, hipped roof with end stacks. Two storeys, three symmetrical bays. Four panelled door to main entrance. Two ground floor sixteen paned hung sash windows with segmental brick arches and three similar first floor windows.
Outbuilding formerly the gatehouse to the Palace of the Bishop of Ely. Built for Bishop Alcock (1486-1500).
Red brick with deeper red brick diaper patterning; plinth coursed in English bond with chamfered limestone band, limestone dressings to quoins and openings. Reroofed with corrugated iron. Possibly of several original storeys, height reduced to two storeys with walls and door jambs in rear elevation of rear wing demolished.
Barn, formerly the kitchen range attached to hall range (demolished) of the Bishop of Elys Palace. Built for Bishop Alcock (1486-1500).
Parish Church. Tower C12 with C19 fourth stage replacing an earlier structure (W Cole).
Cottage. Early C18.
Painted and rendered local brick, red brick and reused stone. Pantiled roofs. One storey and attic with lower range to west. Tumbled corbelled parapet gables with end stack to right hand and ridge stack. Boarded door to left of centre, three, three light casement windows in segmental brick arches, three C20 casement dormer windows.
Interior. Exposed floor frames and inglenook hearths.
Public house, early to mid C19.
Gault brick, red pantile roof with gable end stacks. Two storeys. Central boarded door, two, three light ground floor windows in segmental brick arches, three first floor casement windows.
Interior: Large inglenook hearth.
Farmhouse. Late C15 walls of the Palace of the Bishop of Ely to west and north included in fabric of C19 building.
Gault brick, C15 red brick; plain tile roof with end stacks and ridge stack to right of centre. Two storeys, three bays. Three ground floor recessed sixteen paned hung sash windows in cambered brick arches, main entrance through closed, gabled porch with four panelled door; three first floor twelve paned hung sash windows.
Garden wall. C15.
Red brick. Wall attached to the original Gatehouse and formerly a curtilage wall to the courtyard of the Bishops Palace. Brick plinth and coping.
