Pleasant Place
PLEASANT PLACE, BEDFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114142
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Pleasant Place
- Statutory Address:
- PLEASANT PLACE, BEDFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114142
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Pleasant Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLEASANT PLACE, BEDFORD 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:
- PLEASANT PLACE, BEDFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cardington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 08613 47834
Details
TL 0847
9/7
CARDINGTON,
BEDFORD ROAD
Pleasant Place
GV II
House. C17 origins, C18 and mid-C19. Chequered brick, NE block colour washed and encasing substantial timbering, NW block containing less substantial timbering. Old clay tile roof. Earlier NE block, with NW block possibly originally forming part of l770's Malting Farm complex, and C19 SE blocks. 2 storeys. NE black: front has C20 flat roofed extension to L. To R of this both floors have 3 2-light casements with glazing bars and cambered heads. French windows to ground floor centre and first floor above C20 extension. C20 semicircular bay to ground floor of SE gable. C19 block SE elevation: RH block has 4 sashes with glazing bars and louvred shutters to first floor, flush panel door, 3 French windows and glazed door to ground floor. Central block is lower, with 3 sashes with glazing bars to ground floor, 2 similar ones to first floor flanking dummy window, all under cambered head. Plank door to RH. LH block is lower still, with casement windows, those to ground floor under cambered heads.
Listing NGR: TL0861347834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36644
- 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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