9 AND 11, HIGH STREET
9 AND 11, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114053
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 9 AND 11, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 9 AND 11, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114053
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 9 AND 11, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 9 AND 11, 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:
- 9 AND 11, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ridgmont
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 97368 35782
Details
RIDGMONT HIGH STREET SP 9735 13/69 Nos 9 and 11 GV II
Pair of Bedford Estate cottages erected by the 8th Duke. Dated 1862. Mottled pink brick with red brick dressings. Clay tile roofs. 2 storeyed compact block with gables projecting from 2 principal elevations (S and E). These gables each have a canted bay window to ground floor. Elsewhere windows are of 2 lights under gauged brick flat heads. First floor window to S elevation RH block is beneath a gablet. All contain cast iron lattice casements. Entrances are within angles formed by projecting gables. Plank doors sheltered by porches with gauged brick round-headed arches. Deep eaves and verges have moulded drop finials. Red brick multiple ridge stack. The 7th Duke of Bedford and his successors recognised the advantages of housing agricultural workers in comfortable dwellings. From the late 1840's onwards the emphasis in Bedford Estate cottage building was on the utilitarian rather than the Picturesque. For labourers' cottages of such an early date the quality of construction is remarkably high. The cottages can be seen as an influential contribution to the development of working class housing, which culminated in the garden cities and early council housing. The Dukes of Bedford constructed roughly 500 cottages in the locality between the late 1840's and World War I. This pair of cottages is similar in designs in 7th Duke's Plans and Elevations. The increased use of ornament like that suggested in plan 7 is due to the building's siting near an entrance lodge to Woburn Park. 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 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 apparently 1849.
Listing NGR: SP9736835782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38366
- 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)
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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