Battledsden Lodge
BATTLEDSDEN LODGE, WATLING STREET (A5)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138123
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Battledsden Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- BATTLEDSDEN LODGE, WATLING STREET (A5)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138123
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Battledsden Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BATTLEDSDEN LODGE, WATLING STREET (A5)
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:
- BATTLEDSDEN LODGE, WATLING STREET (A5)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Battlesden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 95753 28270
Details
SP 92 NE BATTLESDEN WATLING STREET (A5) 4/35 Battlesden Lodge GV II Entrance lodge to Battlesden House (now demolished). Part of work carried out 1860-1868 by G H Stokes (advised by Sir Joseph Paxton) for Sir Edward Page-Turner. Late C19 addition to rear. Free Gothic style. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Original structure small T-plan, of one storey and attics, 2 and 3-light moulded mullion and transom windows, with brick aprons and cornices of brick surmounted by ashlar. NW gable has canted bay to ground floor. Porch within W angle. Moulded square-headed opening has impost blocks and heavy keystone surmounted by engaged ball finial. Moulded string course at first floor level to main elevations, breaking forward around cornices of canted bay and porch. Stone coping to gables and parapets. Variety of decorative stone finials to gables. Chimney stacks have moulded stone cornices. Similar to Milton Lodge, Milton Bryan (see item 12 / 60 ). D Bassett, "G H Stokes at Battlesden and Belle Vue", Architectural History, vol 26, 1983, pp92-5. Beds, Record Office: T18/36, lease of 1868.
Listing NGR: SP9575328270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38138
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architectural History in Architectural History, Vol. 26, (1983), 92-95
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.
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