Old Woodbury House,adjoining Wall and Gateway
OLD WOODBURY HOUSE,ADJOINING WALL AND GATEWAY, DROVE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114065
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Woodbury House,adjoining Wall and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- OLD WOODBURY HOUSE,ADJOINING WALL AND GATEWAY, DROVE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114065
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Woodbury House,adjoining Wall and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD WOODBURY HOUSE,ADJOINING WALL AND GATEWAY, DROVE 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:
- OLD WOODBURY HOUSE,ADJOINING WALL AND GATEWAY, DROVE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Everton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 21366 52817
Details
EVERTON DROVE ROAD TL 25SW 3/13 Old Woodbury House, adjoining wall and gateway II House, early C18 added to later C18, replaced early C19 in Gothick style. Brick, rendered, lined as ashlar. Tile roof to main range, slate roofs to C19 additions. Originally lobby entrance plan, with added LH canted bay,RH and rear ranges. 2 storeys and attics. Scattered fenestration. Various timber and metal casements in stone surrounds with foiled heads, and beneath rectangular hood moulds. Ground floor French window has embattled transom, coloured glass to heads. 1st floor windows have patterned leaded glazing, some replaced. Buttressed porch with embattled parapet. Pointed arched doorway, the hood with scroll stops. Timber door with Gothick glazed panels; decorative leaded glazing to side windows. Embattled parapet to original range. Moulded first floor band with bosses continuing to LH canted bay which is similarly fenestrated with coloured glass to ground floor window heads. 3 storey RH wing similarly treated. Interior: staggered butt purlin roof to early C18 range. To rear: embattled gateway rendered brick; rusticated turret-like piers, with pyramidal tile caps, rise above embattled parapets over archway. Arch has rusticated voussoirs and keystone. Embattled red brick wall links gateway to house.
Listing NGR: TL2136652817
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38388
- 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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