Lancotbury
LANCOTBURY, CASTLE HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159722
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lancotbury
- Statutory Address:
- LANCOTBURY, CASTLE HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159722
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lancotbury
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANCOTBURY, CASTLE HILL 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:
- LANCOTBURY, CASTLE HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Totternhoe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 99001 21303
Details
SP 9821 & 9921 TOTTERNHOE CASTLE HILL ROAD (south side) 32/384 & 33/384 Church End
3.2.67 Lancotbury
II
The description shall be amended to read:-
House. Circa early to mid C16. Close-studded timber frame with painted brick nogging. plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable end stacks. 3-room and through passage plan, the hall and parlour heated from back to back fireplace in axial stack; the service room to right (SE) has a later gable end stack and may have been unheated originally. Of the 3 chambers only the hall and the parlour chambers are heated. In circa C17 a stair tower was built at the rear (NE) of the hall/parlour axial stack. Circa C18 or C19 single storey addition at SE end. 2 storeys. 5 window south west front (now the back), the first floor is jetted out on joist ends and jetty beams on curved brackets; both ground and first floor are close-studded. Various C19 and C20 casements, ground floor centre a C19 24-pane sash, blocked window to left and panelled door to right of centre. Lower hipped roof over single storey extension on right. Rear (now front) also close studded, various C19 and C20 2 and 3-light casements, C20 panelled door to left of centre and gabled timber stair tower to right of centre with later lean-to in angle to left. Interior: All three ground floor rooms have chamfered axial beams and broad chamfered joists with straight cut stops, the hall with chamfered cross-beam as well. Hall has fire inside ashlar fireplace, its broad moulded joists running into a large moulded Tudor arch lintel. Parlour-has smaller moulded stone fireplace and C20 panelling. Exposed Close-studding and curved tension braces and close-studded partitions. C17 staircase in tower with chamfered newels and symmetrical turned balusters. Hall and parlour chambers have moulded Tudor arch stone fireplaces, the parlour chamber open to the roof. Jowled wall posts, tie-beams and clasped side-purlin roof complete with common rafters without ridgepiece.
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1. 5125 TOTTERNHOE CASTLE HILL ROAD (south side) Church End
Lancotbury SP 9821 32/384 3.2.67 SP 9921 33/384
II
2. C16. Timber-frame, colourwashed brick nogging. Old tile roof. Two storeys. Four modern casements. Jettied to rear. Small gabled projection.
Listing NGR: SP9900121303
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36159
- 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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