Description

HEMINGFORD GREY LONDON ROAD
1.
5140
(west side)
Limes Park
(Nos 1 to 33 (consec))
(formerly listed as
The Old Workhouse)
TL 37 SW 7/23 5.1.76
II
2.
Formerly St Ives Union Workhouse, built 1838-9. Architect N Nash. Two-storeys.
Central administrative block with two flanking wings and corner pavilions. Two
parallel ranges to rear of pavilions, and detached service block, enclose a courtyard.
Gault brick, slate roof hipped at centre block and pavilions. Stacks of two and
three shafts with common entablatures. Hung sash windows in round-headed arches.
Central door with moulded architrave, semi-circular fan-light in round-headed arch.
Cast-iron window frames with glazing bars in round-headed arches and doors in
cambered and round-headed arches to back ranges.
Accommodation at first-floor serviced by corridor open to courtyard with plain iron
railings and internal stone staircase.
Built at a cost of £4,000 for 400 inmates for the St Ives Union. Until recently was
divided into dwellings and apartments.
(Source: Inskip Ladds Records, Norris Museum, St Ives).

Listing NGR: TL3078470350

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26421348

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy