8 AND 8A, LEIGHTON STREET
8 AND 8A, LEIGHTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157928
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 8A, LEIGHTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8 AND 8A, LEIGHTON STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1157928
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 8A, LEIGHTON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8 AND 8A, LEIGHTON STREET
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:
- 8 AND 8A, LEIGHTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 94761 33050
Details
SP 9433-9533 WOBURN LEIGHTON STREET (North side) 8/120 23.1.61 Nos. 8 and 8a - II House, subdivided into 2 dwellings. Mid C18. Red brick with vitrified headers, the front laid in header bond, the sides laid in Flemish bond giving chequered effect. Lighter red brick dressings. C20 tile roofs. Double- pile plan, 2 storeys and attics, with mansarded 2-span roof, hipped to road elevation. Road elevation: brick bands at first and 2nd floor level. High parapet, brick with stone coping. Ground and first floors each have tripartite sashes with glazing bars, beneath gauged brick flat arches. Parapet has 2 raised panels in rectangular recesses with flat-arched heads. These continue the line of the windows below. Attic has 2 box dormers which rise a little above parapet. E elevation (No.8): 3 window facade with brick band at first floor level. Wood eaves cornice, no parapet. Ground floor has blind window recess to LH and late C19 projecting bay to RH containing tripartite sash. First floor has blind window recess to LH, 2-light casement to centre and 3-light casement to RH, both with glazing bars. All window openings have gauged brick flat arched heads. Plain doorway with flat cornice hood. One box dormer containing casement window. W elevation (No.8a): similar, but without C19 projecting bay. Red brick ridge and gable end stacks.
Listing NGR: SP9476133050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38223
- 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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