The Chestnuts
THE CHESTNUTS, 7, GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1113991
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Chestnuts
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHESTNUTS, 7, GEORGE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1113991
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Chestnuts
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHESTNUTS, 7, GEORGE 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:
- THE CHESTNUTS, 7, GEORGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 94964 33063
Details
SP 9433-9533 WOBURN GEORGE STREET (East side) 8/106 22.10.52 No. 7 (The Chestnuts) GV II* House. Later C18. Red brick, that to front elevation in header bond, with English bond to gable ends. Quoins, string course and cornice of Totternhoe clunch. Slated mansard roof. Double-pile plan. 2 storeys and attics. C19 single-storeyed outbuildings project from rear. Symmetrical front elevation. Ground floor has 2 Venetian windows, the pilasters, entablatures and archivolts of wood. Semi-circular heads of central sashes are hidden by wood louvres set into arch of surround. First floor has 2 modified Venetian windows flanking single sash window. These differ from ground floor windows in that central window and central part of outer ones have flat-headed sashes surmounted by ogee arches. All 3 have simple console brackets below sills. Outer windows are set into slightly projecting bays. Attic has 3 pedimented dormers, all containing sashes with glazing bars. Central doorway has 6-panel door, upper pair glazed, other 4 fielded, set in plain reveals. Flanking pilasters support an ornamented ogee head, all of timber. String course and cornice have simple mouldings. Red brick integral stacks to both gable ends. Interior: 2 ground floor rooms retain fielded pine panelling and fire surrounds. Open well staircase with paired barleytwist balusters. Ground and first floor windows retain internal panelled shutters.
Listing NGR: SP9496433063
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38209
- 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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