Turvey House
TURVEY HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1039600
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Turvey House
- Statutory Address:
- TURVEY HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1039600
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Turvey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURVEY HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- TURVEY HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Turvey
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 93879 52783
Details
TURVEY HIGH STREET SP 9252-9552 (N. Side)
28/623 Turvey House 7.5.1952 GV I
Small country house. 1793-4 entrance front with top storey added probably c1830 when the garden front was built. Stucco. Welsh slate roof. Three storeys. Garden front of seven bays with central and end bays carried forward. End bays have fluted Corinthian two storey columns flanking first floor window with bas relief frieze, ground floor window with Corinthian columns and broken entablature. Central bay has fluted pilasters with anthemion capitals. Over first floor, large entablature with foliated frieze, dentil and mutule cornice. Attic storey above has smaller dentil cornice, blocking course with central and end scroll pediments, the central one topped by a large anthemion motif. Ground floor windows have architrave surrounds, ribbed consoles supporting cornices. First floor windows have eared architraves, bas relief panel over central window, which has corn ear mouldings to frieze. Second floor windows have moulded surrounds. South West front terrace with balustraded parapet. To right hand side recessed tower, later two storey wing. North front has tetrastyle Doric porch to pedimented central projection, slight end projections of facade, all c.1793 except attic storey of earlier C19. Cylindrical lantern, visible over attic, lights dome of staircase hall. Interior has coffered dome to staircase hall with first floor apse (over entrance hall) of semi-circular plan with fluted Corinthian columns and ribbed dome. Drawing room has panelled ceiling and serpentine chimneypiece with console supports.
Listing NGR: SP9387952783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431167
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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