Chew's House

CHEW'S HOUSE, HIGH STREET SOUTH

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1114595
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
Statutory Address:
CHEW'S HOUSE, HIGH STREET SOUTH
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1114595
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
Statutory Address 1:
CHEW'S HOUSE, HIGH STREET SOUTH

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.

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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

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35751
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