Elm Farmhouse
Elm Farmhouse, Beeston Green
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114508
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Elm Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Elm Farmhouse, Beeston Green
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114508
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Elm Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Elm Farmhouse, Beeston Green
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:
- Elm Farmhouse, Beeston Green
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandy
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 16906 48009
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 May 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details, update and reformat the text to current standards
TL 14 NE
2/51
SANDY
Beeston
BEESTON GREEN (west side)
Elm Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C16, clad in mid C19 brick. Flemish band brick over timber frame; gabled old tile roof: brick ridge stack. Two-unit lobby-entry plan. Two storeys; symmetrical two-window range. Segmental brick arches over mid C9 four-panelled door with trellised wrought-iron porch and over two-light casements with glazing bars. Late C19 two-storey lean-to to rear right.
Interior: unusually well-preserved late C16 timber frame, with lath or wattle and daub infill between vertical studding; internal wall bracing; three bays of framing, with central brick stack flanked by jowled storey posts with curved bracing to queen-post and strut trusses with chamfered clasped purlins, straight wind braced and pegged common rafters. two timber-framed staircases, probably of C19 date. Two ground-floor rooms each have ogee-stopped ovolo-moulded beams; chamfered bressummers and squared stone jambs to open fireplaces in each room, that to left retaining spice cupboard; blocked four-light wood-mullioned ovolo-moulded window to left. First floor retains many original floorboards and stop-chamfered beams and wall plates; room to left has late C16 ribbed plank door flanking hooded fireplace with chamfered bressummer; two three-light wood-mullioned ovolo-moulded windows; room to right has hooded fireplace with chamfered bressummer and C19 panelled door set in C16 chamfered architrave. Late C19 rear extension retains standpump, fireplace and washing copper.
Listing NGR: TL1690648009
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37506
- 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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