Feoffee Almshouses

FEOFFEE ALMSHOUSES, 1-7, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1114444
Date first listed:
17-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:
Feoffee Almshouses
Statutory Address:
FEOFFEE ALMSHOUSES, 1-7, CHURCH STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1114444
Date first listed:
17-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:
Feoffee Almshouses
Statutory Address 1:
FEOFFEE ALMSHOUSES, 1-7, CHURCH 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FEOFFEE ALMSHOUSES, 1-7, CHURCH STREET

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

District:
Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ampthill
National Grid Reference:
TL0371038236

Details

1.
744 CHURCH STREET
(North Side)

Nos 1 to 7 (consec)
(Feoffee Almshouses)
TL 0338 1/24 17.7.51.

II GV


2.
Various dates much restored. West range includes 3 dwellings and a C19
Gothic arched entrance: one south with gables above lighting an attic.
Each dwelling a plain door and one window (some diamond leaded casements).
An older section (? C16) at north-west corner is half-timbered and has
an overhanging upper storey, jutted out on a curved wooden corner post
strut. Some brickwork in English bond shows at the back. Tiled roof.
North range largely of later work, but perhaps not earlier than C18. Brick
one storey. Slate roof. See VCH, page 268.

Nos 34 and 36, Little Dynevor, Nos 1 to 7 (consec) (Feoffee Almshouses)
form a group with Parish Church of St Andrews.


Listing NGR: TL0371038236

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Legacy System number:
37356
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Bedford, (1904), 268

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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