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Latitude: 52.1314 / 52°7'52"N
Longitude: 0.209 / 0°12'32"E
OS Eastings: 551297
OS Northings: 250419
OS Grid: TL512504
Mapcode National: GBR M9P.CNL
Mapcode Global: VHHKJ.KPVG
Plus Code: 9F4246J5+GJ
Entry Name: The Almshouses the School House
Listing Date: 22 November 1967
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1127746
English Heritage Legacy ID: 51833
ID on this website: 101127746
Location: Babraham, South Cambridgeshire, CB22
County: Cambridgeshire
District: South Cambridgeshire
Civil Parish: Babraham
Built-Up Area: Babraham
Traditional County: Cambridgeshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Babraham St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Ely
TL 5050 BABRAHAM HIGH STREET
(North-West Side)
8/47 The School House and
22.11.67 Nos. 1,2,3, and 4, The
Almshouses
II*
Three dwellings, formerly a school and six almshouses. 1732, inscribed stone
plaque 'THIS SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL WERE ERECTED AND ENDOW'D BY THE MUNIFICENCE
OF MRS JUDITH BENNET DAUGHTER OF Sr LEVINUS BENNET BARc AND AUGMENTED BY
LIBERALITY OF JAMES BUSH ESQre AND LEVINUS BUSH ESQre HIS SON ANNO
Dmi ; 1732'. The school buildings were in use till 1959. The almshouses
were converted to four dwellings in 1959-60. Walls of red brick coursed in
header bond with gauged brick dressings and plain tiled roofs. Symmetrical
plan, two storey pedimented central block with single storey wings. Each
wing originally with three one-roomed houses now converted to two. Main
entrance facade: central block with side stacks, moulded wooden eaves
cornice and enrichment to pediment; gauged brick band between floors and
gauged brick window arches. Wooden doorcase with shallow hood supported on
shaped brackets, four-flush-panelled door with stone plaque above. Two
ground floor and three first floor C20 casement windows in original
openings. Wings with end stacks, parapet gables, and ridge stacks. Original
entrances altered to two with half-glazed doors and rectangular fanlights in
each wing, and with one original casement window with small panes and two C20
casement windows.
R.C.H.M. Report 1951
V.C.H., Vol. VI, p29
Pevsner. Buildings of England, p294
Listing NGR: TL5129750419
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