The Thatched House
THE THATCHED HOUSE, 41, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222488
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatched House
- Statutory Address:
- THE THATCHED HOUSE, 41, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05691/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222488
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatched House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE THATCHED HOUSE, 41, HIGH 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:
- THE THATCHED HOUSE, 41, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Warden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13660 43735
Details
TL 1243 OLD WARDEN HIGH STREET (West Side)
12/153 No.41 (The Thatched House) 22.10.70
GV II
Shuttleworth Estate cottage. Earlier C19, possibly encasing an earlier building. Cottage ornee style. Colourwashed roughcast over timber frame. Thatched roof. 2-room plan, one storey and attics. Ground floor has 2 canted bay windows with hexagonal leading, twigwork decoration to sills and cornices, and semi-pyramidal roofs. Attic has 2 eyebrow dormers with semi-circular casements which have radiating glazing bars. Central doorway now blocked. Central stuccoed ridge stack with spiralling moulded decoration. Highly decorated pierced bargeboards continue around eaves of front and rear elevations, returning around dormer eaves. Gable ends each have attic window of 3 pointed-arched leaded lights under square head, with square moulded label. Below each is doorway within rustic open porch with gabled thatched hood.
Listing NGR: TL1365843732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414667
- 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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