Box End House
BOX END HOUSE, BOX END ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159567
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Box End House
- Statutory Address:
- BOX END HOUSE, BOX END ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159567
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Box End House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOX END HOUSE, BOX END 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:
- BOX END HOUSE, BOX END ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kempston Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01066 48556
Details
KEMPSTON RURAL BOX END ROAD TL 04 NW (east side)
11/198 Box End House 8.9.1977 - II*
A late C16 timber-framed house probably of H-plan in origin but with right hand cross wing removed and the gable end built up with stone rubble and the left hand wing extended forward for one bay in the C17 or early C18. In 1847 a new principal range was built parallel with the original, facing south. The original main wing is of two storeys with heavy close studding exposed to front and internally on former rear elevation. Old clay tile roof. 2 storey central gabled porch timber-framed and open on ground floor. Cross-mullionea timber casements with leaded lights. Large stone chimney stack inserted into left end with tall paired-shaft brick chimney stack, probably late C17. The surviving cross wing has 2 bay C17 or early C18 timber-framed addition to left hand with external stone chimney stack. The 1847 range is of 2 storeys coursed stone rubble with ashlar dressings, Jacobean detailing. Gabled tile roof with saddlestones and kneelers, crowned by chimneys with octagonal pairs of shafts. 3 bay south garden front with 4-light lozenge-leaded stone mullioned transomed windows to ground floor. 3-light similar windows, with 2- light to centre, on first floor breaking through corbelled eaves, with kneelered and finialed gables. Central shallow porch with moulded lintel and 3-light windows over. A weathered string is carved across the ground floor, stepped up over window and porch. In one of the first floor rooms is an early C17 wall-painting. It represents a bull-baiting scene, with a charging bull in the centre surrounded by dogs, horsemen and hunters. The painting is executed in monochrome distemper with the bull's and dogs' tongues coloured red.
Listing NGR: TL0106648556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36971
- 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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