Poor Law Institution (The Cedars)
POOR LAW INSTITUTION (THE CEDARS), 1, DUNSTABLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114457
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Poor Law Institution (The Cedars)
- Statutory Address:
- POOR LAW INSTITUTION (THE CEDARS), 1, DUNSTABLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114457
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Mar-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Poor Law Institution (The Cedars)
- Statutory Address 1:
- POOR LAW INSTITUTION (THE CEDARS), 1, DUNSTABLE 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.
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:
- POOR LAW INSTITUTION (THE CEDARS), 1, DUNSTABLE 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:
- TL 03392 37482
Details
1. 774 DUNSTABLE STREET (East Side)
Poor Law Institution No 1 (The Cedars)
TL 0337 2/74 17.7.51.
II
2. Mid C19; circa 1835 building of monumental design (influence of current fashion for Italian style). 2 and 3 storeys brown-red brick. Slate roof. Cruciform plan, in which large square blocks of 3 storeys at the points and at the intersection of the cross are linked by lower straight ranges of 2 storeys. The main motif is of triple, arcaded windows set close together at intervals throughout the whole building. The motif is used, centrally at each of the 3 storeys, on each outer face of the square blocks, leaving an impressive expanse of smooth uninterrupted brickwork, which is relieved only by narrow strings binding the whole block at the level of the arcades' spring. Each window has a great number of intersecting glazing bars. Very deeply projecting hipped slate roofs rise piramid-wise over the main blocks to terminate in single massive chimney stacks. The central block has slightly canted corners, so that in its case the hipped roof rises from an octagonal base and it terminates in a stack somewhat larger than the others, itself also of octagonal shape. Architect: James Clephane, who built Wrest Park House and Orangery.
Listing NGR: TL0339237482
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37386
- 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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