Speedsdairy Farmhouse
SPEEDSDAIRY FARMHOUSE, SHEFFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239783
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Speedsdairy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SPEEDSDAIRY FARMHOUSE, SHEFFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239783
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Speedsdairy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPEEDSDAIRY FARMHOUSE, SHEFFORD 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:
- SPEEDSDAIRY FARMHOUSE, SHEFFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Campton and Chicksands
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 10891 38663
Details
The following buildongs shall be added.
TL 13 NW CHICKSANDS SHEFFORD ROAD (east side) 7/67 Speedsdairy Farmhouse
II GV
Farmhouse. Early/mid Cl7 with later C17 extension and dairy outshut to rear; range to front clad in brick and rebuilt above ground floor c.1820-30. Rough- cast over timber frame on brick plinth; early C19 Flemish bond brick. Gabled C19 slate roofs; C19 brick end and ridge stacks. 3-unit plan with lobby entry extended in later C17 to make L-plan with rear right wing, and rear outshut; bay to left of front is probably an early C19 addition. 2 storeys. Early C19 three-window range with segmental arches over beaded four-panelled door, C20 French window to left and three-light late C19 casements; early C19 canted bay window with side-hung casements; segmental arches over early Cl9 sixteen-pane first-floor sashes. Roughcast bay to right has flat rendered arches over C20 door and late C19 two to 3-light casements. Mid/late C18 two-light casement and dormer with similar casement, both with leaded-lights. Outshut with lean-to roof and mid C19 gabled porch to rear. INTERIOR: early C19 panelled doors and shutters; former service room to right of centre has early C19 corner cupboard and H-L hinges to doors. The ground floor rooms of the front range have chamfered ogee-stopped beams; beam to left is probably reset; rear wall retains timber framing with close studding, visible from former dairy outshut to rear which retains part of its original timber frame and some C17 plank doors with original iron fittings; first floor of front range retains C17 floorboards. Later C17 rear extension has boxed beam and chamfered ogee-stopped beam to ground floor and 2-bay collar-truss roof with clasped purlins.
Listing NGR: TL1089138663
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37776
- 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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