PARK HOUSE (CHESHIRE HOME FOR THE DISABLED), AMPTHILL PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1137595
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE (CHESHIRE HOME FOR THE DISABLED), AMPTHILL PARK
Statutory Address:: PARK HOUSE (CHESHIRE HOME FOR THE DISABLED), AMPTHILL PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1137595
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE (CHESHIRE HOME FOR THE DISABLED), AMPTHILL PARK
Statutory Address 1:: PARK HOUSE (CHESHIRE HOME FOR THE DISABLED), AMPTHILL PARK

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: PARK HOUSE (CHESHIRE HOME FOR THE DISABLED), AMPTHILL PARK

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 02670 39058

Details

1. 774 Park House (Cheshire Home for Disabled), Ampthill Park TL 0239 5/2 17.7.51

II*

2. Mansion built in 1694 for John, First Baron Ashburnham. Main block, originally brick, of 3 storeys below a modillion cornice. Tiled mansard roof with square dormers. 11 windows the central 3 in slight projection beneath pediment. Widely splayed perron leads up to classical doorway in centre of the piano nobile. In continuation of this storey run pilastered wings connecting 2 rectangular blocks (4 windows by 4 windows) also of only 2 storeys and beneath (later) hipped slate roofs, standing forward of the main block. Early parts by Captain Wynn, designer of original Buckingham House. Influence, if not authorship, of Wren, who was engaged on work in Ampthill, is apparent. (All Souls drawing 1.84 reproduced in Wren Society, Vol XII, p1 XIV, strongly resembles). Chambers remodelled the side blocks, adding a 3-sided bay to the outer flank of north-east block, and much of the main block, encasing the whole house in stucco. VCH page 27O. Lady Holland, Whig political and literary hostess, lived here 1818-45.

Listing NGR: TL0267039058

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 37308
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Bedford, (1904), 270
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 2 Bedfordshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.