The Covey
The Covey, High Street, Turvey
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249106
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Covey
- Statutory Address:
- The Covey, High Street, Turvey
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249106
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Covey
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Covey, High Street, Turvey
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 Covey, High Street, Turvey
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Turvey
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 94449 52426
Details
SP 9452-9552
29/592
TURVEY,
HIGH STREET,
The Covey
(Formerly listed as Outbuilding to Box Cottage, HIGH STREET (S. Side))
GV II
Outhouse to estate cottage, mid C19.
MATERIALS: Coursed limestone rubble. Concrete tile roof.
PLAN: Single room plan.
EXTERIOR: Single storey with attic. The N gable end to the road has bargeboards with moulded timber decoration. It has a blocked attic window under a timber lintel and a 4-light window on the ground floor. The E elevation has a door on the left, a 2-light casement with glazing bars, and a blocked window under a timber lintel.
INTERIOR: Exposed roof with common rafters made of split tree trunks.
HISTORY: Pear Tree Cottage (formerly Box Cottage) and its outbuilding The Covey were built in the mid C19 as part of the estate of Turvey Abbey, which lies to the east. The Covey was at some time in use as a shop and a workshop. The buildings appear on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1883 and 1900. They form a group with similar mid C19 estate cottages at nos. 1-2 High Street and Nos. 1-10 Abbey Square.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION:
The Covey is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* It is a humble but well-crafted mid C19 estate building, made from local materials in a vernacular style, with decorative touches in the bargeboarding
* It has strong group value with Pear Tree Cottage and forms part of an important and coherent group of Turvey Abbey estate cottages in a similar style, all listed at Grade II
Listing NGR: SP9444752424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430951
- 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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