Numbers 15 to 17 and Detached Outhouses to the Rear
NUMBERS 15 TO 17 AND DETACHED OUTHOUSES TO THE REAR, 15-17, TURNPIKE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157852
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 15 to 17 and Detached Outhouses to the Rear
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 15 TO 17 AND DETACHED OUTHOUSES TO THE REAR, 15-17, TURNPIKE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157852
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 15 to 17 and Detached Outhouses to the Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 15 TO 17 AND DETACHED OUTHOUSES TO THE REAR, 15-17, TURNPIKE ROAD
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:
- NUMBERS 15 TO 17 AND DETACHED OUTHOUSES TO THE REAR, 15-17, TURNPIKE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Husborne Crawley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 95760 35256
Details
HUSBORNE CRAWLEY TURNPIKE ROAD SP 9535 12/36 Nos 15 to 17 (consecutive) and detached outhouses to 22.1.86 the rear GV II
Row of Bedford Estate cottages erected by the 7th Duke. Dated 1853. Red brick laid in rat-trap bond. C20 tile roofs. Symmetrical one storey and attics block. 4-bay facade, outer bays gabled, inner ones each with a gablet. Ground floor has 2 3-light windows flanking 2 2-light windows. Attic has 4 2-light windows. All are cast iron lattice casements under slightly cambered heads. 2 doorways to centre, under gabled hoods on curved brackets. No 15 has entrance in side elevation. Cogged eaves cornices. Red brick multiple ridge stacks.
The 7th Duke of Bedford recognised the advantages of housing agricultural labourers in comfortable dwellings. From the late 1840's onwards the emphasis in Bedford Estate cottage building was on the utilitarian rather than the Picturesque. The cottages are not only remarkable for the high quality of construction at such an early date, but also represent an influential contribution to the development of working class housing which culminated in the garden cities and early council housing. The Dukes of Bedford built about 500 cottages in the locality between the 1840's and World War I. This block typifies the plain but substantial dwellings of the earliest phase in this building programme, and is similar to design no. 5 in the 7th Duke's Plans and Elevations. The brickwork seems to be an early type of cavity walling (cf. note by Charles Hacker in above work). This block is part of an important linear grouping of estate cottages along a road which forms part of the boundary of Woburn Park.
The (7th) Duke of Bedford:Plans and Elevations of Cottages for Agricultural Labourers, London, 1850 (reprint of letter and plans sent 1849 to the Earl of Chichester, President of the Royal Agricultural Society); The (11th) Duke of Bedford: A Great Agricultural Estate, being the Story of the Origin and Administration of Woburn and Thorney, London, 1897; Rev. C.H. Hartshorne: The System of building Labourers' Cottages, pursued on the estates of His Grace the Duke of Bedford n.d. but probably 1849.
Listing NGR: SP9576035256
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38333
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hartshorne, Reverend C H, The System of Building Labourers Cottages pursued on the Estates of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, (1849)
The 11th Duke of Bedford, , A Great Agricultural Estate being the Story of the Origin and Administration of Woburn and Thorney, (1897)
Other
The 7th Duke of Bedford, Plans and Elevations of Cottages for Agricultural Labourers, (1850)
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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