Speedwell Farmhouse
SPEEDWELL FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1157963
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- Statutory Address:
- SPEEDWELL FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1157963
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPEEDWELL FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SPEEDWELL FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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 95422 32325
Details
SP 9432-9532 WOBURN LONDON ROAD 9/125 Speedwell Farmhouse 22.10.52 - II House. Probably late C17 in origin, reworked 1795-1802 for the Bedford estate under direction of Robert Salmon (J M Robinson, "Farming on a Princely Scale", Architectural Review, November 1976, p279). H-plan, 2 storeys and attics. E cross-wing bordering with moulding coping to both ends of E cross-wing and to end of it cross-wing. S elevation: each cross-wing has one window per floor, those to RH wing off-centre. Central sashes of varying width, with glazing bars and set in plain reveals. Central block has one hipped dormer containing small-paned 2-light casement. Doorway to RH, next to junction with cross-wing. Part-glazed door under C19 timber open porch with sloping roof. Colourwashed ridge stack to centrala block, at junction with cross-wing. Road elevation: first floor band, continuing around RH end. Ground and first floor each have 3 sashes with glazing bars in plain reveals. Attic has 2 hipped dormers containing small-paned casements. Integral stack to RH N elevaton: 2 storeyed gabled addition within E angle, and various lean-to additions.
Listing NGR: SP9542232325
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38228
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robinson, J M, Architectural Review in Farming on a Princely Scale Estate Buildings of the 5th and 6th Dukes of Bedford at Woburn 1787-1839, (1976), 279
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