87, 87B and 87C High Street

87, 87b and 87c, High Street, Henlow, SG16 6AB

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1117387
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:
87, 87B and 87C High Street
Statutory Address:
87, 87b and 87c, High Street, Henlow, SG16 6AB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1117387
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:
87, 87B and 87C High Street
Statutory Address 1:
87, 87b and 87c, High Street, Henlow, SG16 6AB

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
87, 87b and 87c, High Street, Henlow, SG16 6AB

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

District:
Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Henlow
National Grid Reference:
TL1765738620

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 October 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

TL 1738
346-/12/10002

HENLOW
HIGH STREET
Nos.87, 87B and 87C

(Formerly listed as Nos. 87 and 87B (odd) Manor Farmhouse)

II
Former farmhouse, now subdivided. Part early C16 or earlier, extended C17 and C18, refenestrated C19 and C20. Timber framed, with exposed gable with jowled posts and diagonal bracing to rear, but remainder brick mainly painted. Tiled roof with brick chimney stack in centre of range and at end.

No 87 is of one storey and attics at front with gabled dormer and 2 storeys to rear with decorative tiles above brick. Two casement windows and gabled and tilehung painted brick porch. No 87B and 87C is L-shaped of two storeys with three windows to main range. Front has one C20 casement and one mid C19 casement with vertical glazing bars. Rear has projecting timber framed gable.

Interior features include frame with curved braces and curved tie beam, roof with coupled rafters, through purlins and collar beams and mid C 17 axial beam with chamfer, fillet, tongue and triangle.

This building was at one time owned by the Wrest Park Estate and is shown on an estate map of Henlow dated 1718 (Ref MA5/1)

Listing NGR: TL1765738620

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
442135
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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