Hobson's Conduit
HOBSON'S CONDUIT, LENSFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1067788
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Hobson's Conduit
- Statutory Address:
- HOBSON'S CONDUIT, LENSFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1067788
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Hobson's Conduit
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOBSON'S CONDUIT, LENSFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- HOBSON'S CONDUIT, TRUMPINGTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HOBSON'S CONDUIT, LENSFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- HOBSON'S CONDUIT, TRUMPINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45152 57638
Details
TRUMPINGTON ROAD 1. 942 (East Side) TL 4557 NW 10/209 26.4.50. Hobson's Conduit II* 2. Erected on Market Hill 1614, re-erected in present position in 1856. Hexagonal stone structure with moulded plinth; niche in each side with shell-head; entablature surmounted by strapwork cresting, achievement of Royal Arms on one side, putti and carved beasts at angles and ogee-shaped top surmounted by pineapple finial. Restored 1967. Interesting as the fountainhead of a very early public water supply. See also Market Hill. (RCHM 79).
Listing NGR: TL4515257638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47826
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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