Wanstead House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.
Wanstead House
- WRENN ID
- night-cinder-moth
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/01/2013
TL 4557 17/57 942 26.4.50
HILLS ROAD (West Side) No 2 (Wanstead House)
GV II*
Circa 1825. 2 storeys; gault brick; plaster dressings; hipped slate roof; symmetrically designed front with dentilled and modillioned caves-cornice; 3 windows, moulded architraves, glazing bars; central doorway with eared architrave, swags on frieze above, flanking fluted Corinthian columns with entablature with pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. Particularly im- portant for the inclusion of features from Colen Campbell's 1st major work, Wanstead House in Essex (1715-21) demolished in 1824. The entrance doorcase as described above; other doorcases, window architraves, panelling and plasterwork. The dining-room is particularly rich in these fittings. Also marble fireplaces and fine wrought-iron balustrade to the staircase. Also some good fittings of 1825. (RCHM 279). Nos 2 to 22 (even) form a group.
Listing NGR: TL4553657679
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