List Entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: Tower Farmhouse

List Entry Number: 1127026

Location

Tower Farmhouse, Tower Road

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County: Cambridgeshire
District: East Cambridgeshire
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Downham

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 05-Feb-1952

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 49474

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List Entry Description

Summary of Building

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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Details

TL 58 SW 4/21

DOWNHAM TOWER ROAD (North Side) Tower Farmhouse

5.2.52

GV II Farmhouse. Late C15 walls of Bishop of Ely's Palace 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.

Listing NGR: TL5191984195

Selected Sources

Books and journals
Bishopric of Ely Lease Book, (1746), 318-321
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 330
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 92

Map

National Grid Reference: TL5191984195

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