120-124, HIGH STREET is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1983. School, dwellings.

120-124, HIGH STREET

WRENN ID
haunted-stair-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Country
England
Date first listed
8 June 1983
Type
School, dwellings
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TL 2885-2986 RAMSEY HIGH STREET 12/15 Nos 120 to 124 (consec) GV II

Built in 1848 as the Elementary School, now 3 dwellings. Plans by Blore. H-plan with central 2-storey porch. Two storeys. Yellow gault brick with limestone copings, plain tile roof, decorated ridge tiles. Two ridge stacks at junction with wings each with 4 diagonal shafts and 2 faceted, lanterns with tented lead roofs and finial decoration. Two side stacks to front facade with single diagonal shafts. Dentil brick cornice to central block. Kneed parapet gables to wings. Windows of 2, 3 and 4-lights with geometric patterned glazing bars, some with transomes. Three half-glazed and panelled doors in segmental arches with chamfered architraves. Two storey porch has angle buttresses, central doorway with inset stone panel above, framed by stone string course, and surmounted by a bell turret with stone copings and finial.

Source. Blore Account Book. Camb. U. Lib.

The former Elementary school forms part of an important and picturesque group of buildings that surround the Abbey Green.

Listing NGR: TL2902185155

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