Description

TL 4551 LITTLE SHELFORD WHITTLESFORD ROAD

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No.1 The Old House
31.8.62 (formerly listed as The Old
GV House)

II

House, formerly lodge, late C16, C18, late C19 and c.1928. Red
brick, painted, with timber-framing and plaster render. Steeply
pitched tiled roofs, with a half hipped roof to the west gable
end. Two side stacks to the north wall. Original plan of a
single range parallel to the road and forming the north
crosswing to an H-plan manor house of c.1600. Two storeys and
attic with part of band remainind between the storeys.
Elevation to the road has C19 hung sashes irregularly placed and
one gable end with a two storey canted bay. Entry from the road
in C19 porch. The gable end to the east has an oriel window and
the dates 1764 and 1858 in a panel above. Adjoining the house
is an early C18 wall with two piers of narrow red and yellow
brick with stone cornice and ball finails. Interior: Some of
the original timber-framing is visible in the east end at first
floor level. The centre ground floor room has intersecting main
beams, stop chamfered and another room with an early C18 niche
with rusticated surround, and a moulded cornice and part of an
overmantel. The raised and fielded panelling probably from this
room forms a partition wall in a bedroom. Another bedroom has
early C17 panelling below dado height. The house was the north
wing of Old Shelford House, the home of the Wale family since
c.1700. In c.1880 a new house was built to the south, (burnt
down 1928) and this building became the lodge. A model of the
original house is in the Cambridge and County Folk Museum,
Castle Hill, Cambridge. Thomas Babington Macaulay, the
historian, was at school here from 1813-15 and refers to an
attic room, possibly that in the west gable end, in his
correspondence.

Listing NGR: TL4543851632

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26458510

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