Thriplow Bury

TL 4246 THRIPLOW LODGE ROAD (South West Side) 13/298 Thriplow Bury 22.11.67 GV II* Large house. c.1700 and 1713 (dated stone key to window) with C17 origins; early C19 alterations dated 'AHP 1832' on carved brick, and 1930 renovations and additions by H.C. Hughes. Red brick with lighter red brick dressings and gauged red brick window arches. Hipped plain tiled roofs. Rebuilt stack to right of centre, two large rectangular stacks and original side stack to north-west with limestone offsets and tall panelled shaft. Two storeys and attics with semi cellar. L-plan; original C17 house enclosed and replaced by five 'bay' c.1700 building to south-east extended to north-east in 1930 and c.1960 to eight 'bays', wing to north-west c.1713. South-east elevation: Main entrance in original position, C20 replacement double- panelled doors and rectangular fanlight with flat, bracketed hood. Four original ground floor eighteen-paned hung sash windows and five similar first floor windows with oak frames and crown glass in flat gauged brick arches; one three-light C20 bay window and garden door and three first floor hung sash windows. Plaque above bay window an inscribed cartouche 'RJY Reparavit 1930' with dolphins, by Clare Shepherd. Plinth; four course; brick band between floors; deep modillioned eaves cornice, five C20 hipped dormer casement windows. North-west elevation: of five unequal 'bays' with three original first floor windows and inserted early C19 round arched staircase window; two large ground floor early C19 hung sash windows and one original hung sash window. (Five windows in north-east elevation blocked c.1832). Interior: Reused C17 oak panelling and door; C17 kitchen hearth with mantel beam. Early C18 bolection moulded panels and some chimney piece surrounds, closed string staircase with twisted balusters rising to attic floors. C18 cornices and raised-and fielded-panelling of two heights in first floor rooms and complete in south room. Late C18 Adam style fireplace in drawing room flanked by fluted pilasters. Resited niche in entrance hall from Castle Hill, Cambridge. Thriplow Bury is one of four manors in Thriplow held by the Bening family from 1681 to 1820 when it was inherited by Ambrose Hope Perkins in c.1820. R.C.H.M. Report 1950 V.C.H. Vol. VI, p.240 Hughes, H.C. Notes on Thriplow Place, P.C.A.S. 1930

Listing NGR: TL4354346186