Description

TL 3058-3158
12/78
31.8.62

CAXTON
ERMINE STREET
(West Side)
No. 65 (The Crown House)

GV
II*

House formerly The Crown Coaching Inn. C16 or early C17 with later C17 and
C18 alterations. C17 red brick, painted in street elevation, and exposed and
plastered timber-frame. Hipped plain tile roofs. Two ridge stacks to left
hand and one stack to right hand. Two storeys with attics and cellars.
U-plan with rear wings enclosing yard and with evidence of galleries to south
and east; carriageway to north of centre and coeval with north range; south
and west ranges late C17. Street elevation: Plastered plinth and double
brick band between floors. Two first floor and one ground floor blind
windows, five first floor twelve-paned slightly recessed hung sash windows
and four similar ground floor windows. Entrance to left hand approached by
stone and brick steps with six-panelled C19 door and panelled reveals to
doorcase with canopy on shaped brackets. Carriageway with early C17 carved
four-centred headed arch; half-glazed door to right hand. Rear elevation
has enclosed gallery to east and partly demolished and enclosed gallery to
south; three wooden pillars survive. Interior: Red brick corner hearths
with elliptical brick arches and one with a mantel beam, in south and rear
ranges; large inglenook hearth to north range. Wall painting of panelled
design in first floor room. C17 door with cockshead hinges. Short flight of
original attic stair with flat balusters. The Crown Inn was the collecting
Post Office for north Cambridgeshire by the end of the C18, and was used as a
Magistrates Court until 1839, it ceased to be an inn c.1860.

R.C.H.M. West Cambs., p39, mon.ll
V.C.H., Vol. V, pp 26, 27, 33
Brown J.
Caxton Now and Then 1984

Listing NGR: TL3034058388

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550463

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)