Lion Court

1, BULL STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1114076
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:
Lion Court
Statutory Address:
1, BULL STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1114076
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:
Lion Court
Statutory Address 1:
1, BULL STREET
Statutory Address 2:
LION COURT, 5, MARKET SQUARE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1, BULL STREET
Statutory Address:
LION COURT, 5, MARKET SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Potton
National Grid Reference:
TL 22299 49223

Details

POTTON MARKET SQUARE TL 2249 (West Side) 12/42 No. 5 (Lion Court) and No. 1 31.10.66 Bull Street GV II House, subdivided into flats. Late C18 refronting of earlier structure. Colourwashed render over brick, apparently containing some timber framing. Clay tile roofs. Main block of 2 storeys and attics, with 2 storeyed block running westwards along Bull Street. Principal elevation is symmetrical, of 5 bays. All windows are sashes with glazing bars, attic ones being half height. Attic windows are set into high parapet which hides front roof slope. Central doorway has C20 panelled door flanked by side-lights and surmounted by rectangular fanlight. C20 surround has ornamental console brackets supporting simple cornice. Modillion cornice to parapet. Integral brick stacks to both gable ends. Rear projecting block has similar sashes with glazing bars and projecting band at first floor level.

Listing NGR: TL2229949223

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Legacy System number:
38416
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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