Chew's House
CHEW'S HOUSE, HIGH STREET SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1114595
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Chew's House
- Statutory Address:
- CHEW'S HOUSE, HIGH STREET SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1114595
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Chew's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHEW'S HOUSE, HIGH STREET SOUTH
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:
- CHEW'S HOUSE, HIGH STREET SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunstable
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02132 21654
Details
1. 5125 HIGH STREET SOUTH (East Side) Chew's House TL 0221 2/22 25.10.51.
II* GV
2. Circa 1715. Brown-red brick, with red dressings and quoins. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys. 5 sash windows with flat arches. 8-flush-panel, 2-fold door with oblong fanlight, cornice hood breaking forward over consoles. Stone blocking course above each console carries little black boy in contemporary English dress with white collar and buttons. Gable end of roof has moulded open pediment. Plaque in tympanum containing clock face. Tall wood white-painted cupola astride pediment. Square drum. Circular bell turrett.
Nos 65 to 75 (odd) with Chew's House and Front Walls form a group.
Listing NGR: TL0213221654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 35751
- 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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