Number 1 and Detached Outhouse
NUMBER 1 AND DETACHED OUTHOUSE, 1, MILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114040
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 and Detached Outhouse
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 1 AND DETACHED OUTHOUSE, 1, MILL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114040
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1 and Detached Outhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 1 AND DETACHED OUTHOUSE, 1, MILL 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:
- NUMBER 1 AND DETACHED OUTHOUSE, 1, MILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Husborne Crawley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 96155 35721
Details
SP 9635
13/29
HUSBORNE CRAWLEY,
MILL ROAD,
No. 1 and detached outhouse
(Formerly listed under RIDGMONT ROAD)
22.1.86
GV II
Bedford estate cottage erected by the 7th Duke. Dated 1850. Red brick laid
in rat-trap bond. C20 tile roofs. Compact one storey and attics block. SE
elevation: RH slightly projecting gable, brick porch within angle. Gable has
one 2-light window per floor, LH block has one single light to ground floor.
All are cast iron lattice casements under slightly cambered heads. Porch has
4-centred archway. SW elevation: double gabled, each gable with one 2-light
lattice casement per floor. Cogged eaves cornices. Red brick double ridge
stack.
The 7th Duke of Bedford recognised the benefits of housing agricultural
labourers in comfortable dwellings. From the late 1840's onwards the emphasis
in Bedford estate cottage building was on the utilitarian rather than the
Picturesque. The cottages are remarkable for the high quality of construction
at such an early date. They represent an influential contribution to the
development of working class housing which culminated in the garden cities and
early council housing. The Dukes of Bedford built about 500 cottages in the
locality between the 1840's and World War I. This cottage is typical of the
plain but substantial dwellings of the earliest phase in this building
programme, and is similar to designs in the 7th Duke's Plans and Elevations.
The brickwork is an interesting example of early cavity walling (cf note by
Charles Hacker in above work).
The (7th) Duke of Bedford: Plans and Elevations of Cottages for Agricultural
Labourers, London 1850 (reprint of letter and plans sent 1849 to Earl of
Chichester, President of Royal Agricultural Society); The (llth) Duke of
Bedford: A Great Agricultural Estate, being the story of the Origin and
Administration of Woburn and Thorney, London 1897; Rev C H Hartshorne: The
System of building Labourers' Cottages pursued on the estates of His Grace the
Duke of Bedford, n.d. but probably 1849.
Listing NGR: SP9615535721
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38326
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hartshorne, Reverend C H, The System of Building Labourers Cottages pursued on the Estates of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, (1849)
The 11th Duke of Bedford, , A Great Agricultural Estate being the Story of the Origin and Administration of Woburn and Thorney, (1897)
Other
The 7th Duke of Bedford, Plans and Elevations of Cottages for Agricultural Labourers, (1850)
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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