Description

TL 57 NE WICKEN STRETHAM ROAD
(South Side)

8/106 Spinney Abbey

II

House dated 1775 on right hand gabled end on or near the site of
a C13 priory of Augustinian Canons. The house is built on a
plan of two parallel gables linked by a short hall range. The
walls are of coursed Barnack ashlar reused from the priory and
also of clunch, probably from Burwell. There is some gault
brick in the rear walls. Plain tiled gable roofs. Two storeys
and attics. Garden front has two cross-frame casements with
later glazing, to each gable end and a central doorway. A
similar window in the rear wall still retains its original
leaded lights. Inside there are two early C17 doors reset in an
attic and some square sunken panelling of similar date reset in
a bedroom. The house has a cellar lined with clunch with an
early C17 stop chamfered ceiling beam. A ground floor room has
a reused beam of similar date set diagonally. In the kitchen
there is a 1775 shouldered fireplace surround and a corner
cupboard with raised and fielded panelling. In the garden to
the west there are a number of pieces of C14 moulded Barnack
limestone from the priory. One is a wheel-cross, another a bell
shaped capital and others quatrefoils with small shafts where
the foils meet, the latter pieces of stone probably formed part
of an arcade.
RCHM: Record Card.
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p.485.

Listing NGR: TL5550271753

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Spinney Abbey at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7577603

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)