21 High Street

21 High Street, Carlton, MK43 7LA

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1114240
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:
21 High Street
Statutory Address:
21 High Street, Carlton, MK43 7LA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1114240
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:
21 High Street
Statutory Address 1:
21 High Street, Carlton, MK43 7LA

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
21 High Street, Carlton, MK43 7LA

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

District:
Bedford (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Carlton and Chellington
National Grid Reference:
SP9536255309

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 May 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SP 9455-9555
24/96

CARLTON AND CHELLINGTON
HIGH STREET (east side)
No 21

(Formerly listed as No. 19 Knowle Cottage)

GV
II

Late C17 or C18 house. Colourwashed coursed limestone rubble. Thatched roof. Two-bay plan, gable end to road. One storey and attics. Gable end chimney stacks. South elevation: two attic eyebrow dormers. Ground floor has doorway at west end, one two-light and one three-light casement windows. All ground floor openings have timber lintels. To east gable end is an attached barn now used as part of the dwelling. Coursed limestone rubble. Corrugated iron roof. South elevation has C20 openings.

Listing NGR: SP9536255309

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
36875
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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