Chawston Lodge

CHAWSTON LODGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245334
Date first listed:
16-Jun-1997
List Entry Name:
Chawston Lodge
Statutory Address:
CHAWSTON LODGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245334
Date first listed:
16-Jun-1997
List Entry Name:
Chawston Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
CHAWSTON LODGE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHAWSTON LODGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Bedford (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden
National Grid Reference:
TL 15725 56154

Details

TL 15 NE ROXTON CHAWSTON

80/6/10004 Chawston lodge

II

House. c1600, with C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed core, with external render covering and mock timber frame embellishment. Asbestos slate roof covering with central brick ridge stack. Lobby entrance plan. 2- bay, 2 storey house with added, half-hipped C20 extension to east gable, and C20 gabled porch to front. C20 window frames to front elevation and C20 wedge dormers to rear roof slope. INTERIOR: substantial survival of original plan form, with central stack and back-to-back hearths serving ground floor rooms, both now with C20 additions. Chamfered spine beams with decorative stops support chamfered joists to both rooms. Inserted opening through studded east wall gives access to C20 added bay. First floor with 2 chambers on different levels, both with exposed wall framing and braced jowl posts to corners. Cambered tie beams within gables and to central truss. Advanced hearth beam to east chamber supports hearth hood.

Listing NGR: TL1572556154

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
468729
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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