Chestnut Tree House
CHESTNUT TREE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113813
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Tree House
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTNUT TREE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- 2005-02-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/12975/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113813
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Tree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTNUT TREE 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:
- CHESTNUT TREE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gravenhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 11235 35933
Details
The following building shall be added:
TL 13 NW GRAVENHURST HIGH STREET
(north west side) 4/67 Chestnut Tree House
II
House with attached outbuilding, now part of house. C17, probably late; C18 and C19 additions and alterations; restored 1982-85. Timber-framed with plastered brick infill; brick; plain tile roof with C20 double Roman tiles to outshut; pebble-dashed brick stack. 2 storeys. 3 cells with central stack; side outshut at north-west end, linking to C19 single-storey, gabled, outbuilding; 2 short wings on south-west side, the southern one probably a C18 rebuilding in brick of an earlier, slightly shorter, wing. Frame, below midrail, is underbuilt, mostly in C20 brick. Above midrail it is exposed, having large-scantling jowelled wallposts; tall narrow panels; long raking braces; and in the gables, tie-beams, collars and vertical studs. 1980s glazed doors. 1980s casement windows, mostly small-paned with leaded glazing. Garden (north east) elevation: central ground-floor section plastered; 3-light window to right; windows of 1 and 3 lights to 1st floor (on right); central ridge stack. Doorway to outshut. 6-pane window to brick outbuilding on right. Entrance (south-west) elevation: C20 conservatory (not of special interest) mask entrances to outbuilding and outshut. Paired brick wings at centre, that on left C19 with 1980s hipped-roofed bay window; that on right C18, with small window, hipped roof, and in right return doorway with bracketed canopy and small window over and a 2-light window to each floor on left, that on ground floor with segmental brick arch. On first floor of right bay, an old 3-light wood-mullioned window. South-east end: 1980s canted bay window with 2-light window over; ends of clasped purlins visible. Interior-: north-west room has brick inglenook fireplace with 2 arched recesses in rear wall and timber bressumer; chamfered spine - beam with stepped cyma stops; old joists. Similar spine-beam and rebuilt fireplace in south-east room. Old wing has arched soffit to beam indicating position of former doorway. On 1st floor, timber frame exposed and brick chimney rises in central bay. In roof, wattle and daub partitions between bays formerly rose full-height; through purlins are clasped by collars and rafters; old rafters with carpenters marks. Old tiled floor in outbuilding.
Listing NGR: TL1123535933
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37775
- 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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