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IoE Number:
49473
Location:
BARN TO EAST OF TOWER FARMHOUSE, TOWER ROAD (north side)
DOWNHAM, EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Photographer:
N/A
Date Photographed:
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Date listed:
05 February 1952
Date of last amendment:
05 February 1952
Grade
II*
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TL 58 SW DOWNHAM TOWER ROAU
(North Side)
4/20 Barn to east of
5.2.52 Tower Farmhouse
GV 11*
Barn, formerly the kitchen range attached to hall range (demolished) of the
Bishop of Ely's Palace. Built for Bishop Alcock (1486-1500). Red brick with
deeper red brick diaper patterning; plinth coursed in English bond with
chamfered limestone band. Roof recently burnt in fire, 1984 and replaced
with red pantile covering. One storey kitchen, chambered to the west with
octagonal side stack in crow-stepped gable wall; large lateral stack to east
of south wall reduced to eaves height and opened in C19 as entrance to the
barn. West gable leanto with weatherings in gable wall of original roof.
Wall to east C20 and side stack. Dentil brick eaves cornices. South
elevation. Blocked four-centred arched doorway to left hand; five-light
ground floor window with stone jambs and chamfered mullions. Three first
floor windows, one with original wave moulded brick jambs and brick label,
(without frames 1984). Interior: Kitchen hearth with wide four-centred
pointed brick arch and baking oven with drying chamber above. Blocked
openings in north wall suggest an entrance at ground floor to a vaulted
passage beside the hall with wide four-centred brick arched servery to left
hand; blocked first floor window-and two arched recesses to chamber above
hall. Recesses at first floor in north and south walls indicate the position
of the east wall of the kitchen chamber. Blocked openings of west wall;
door at ground floor to leanto, one at first floor to garderobe and to
blocked hearth. The Palace was the favourite of the medieval bishops,
damaged in the Civil War it was demolished in the C18, a lease of 1746 refers
to its conversion as a farmhouse.
Bishopric of Ely Lease Book. June 1746, p318-321
R.C.H.M. (Measured Drawings) 1977
V.C.H. p92
Pevsner: Buildings of England p330
Patterson, W: The Village and the Church 1974