Description

In the entry for:
WORTH CAMBRIDGE AVENUE
(south side)
Sandilands and The Backs
2/139

The first sentence of the description shall be amended to read:

"House, now subdivided, one part a private house the other a residential house"

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WORTH CAMBRIDGE AVENUE
TR 35 NE (South side)

2/139 Sandilands and
The Backs

II

House, now residential home. Circa 1930 for Lord Vestey, by Sir Reginald
Blomfield. Red brick in English Bond with plain tiled roof. L-shaped plan
with bowed re-entrant. Two storeys and attic on basement with plinth and
moulded cornice to hipped roof with 3 flat roofed dormers and stacks to
left and to right, at right angles to each other, and to rear. Projecting
4 bay centre piece with giant pilasters. Five glazing bar sashes on first
floor, 4 on ground floor, the centre and outer windows with keyed heads.
Central double 4-panelled doors with rectangular fanlight, moulded architrave
and flying cornice and 8 moulded steps. Regular fenestration of glazing bar
sashes throughout rear and return elevations. Wall extending to north of
main house about 6 feet high, enclosing The Backs, originally the service
wing to house of one storey and attic, with hipped roof, 3 flat roofed dormers
and canted bay to right with central glazed door. Interior: heavy bolection
moulded panelling in some rooms, moulded skirting and cornices throughout.
Oval rooms in re-entrant, with enriched lugged fireplaces. Staircase hall,
with small panel wainscotting, triple round headed arcade on one wall,
making 2 doorways and central recessed shell headed niche. Open well stair
with ramped moulded rail and turned balusters. The panelling in this hall
is reputed to have come from a Chateau owned by Lord Vestey in the Loire,
and some 200 years old.

Listing NGR: TR3655157025

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554688

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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