Barns at Warden Abbey Farm
BARNS AT WARDEN ABBEY FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274805
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Barns at Warden Abbey Farm
- Statutory Address:
- BARNS AT WARDEN ABBEY FARM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274805
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Barns at Warden Abbey Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARNS AT WARDEN ABBEY FARM
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:
- BARNS AT WARDEN ABBEY FARM
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 11958 43926
Details
In the entry for:-
TL 14 SW OLD WARDEN
5/114 Barns at Warden Abbey Farm
GV 16.3.72 II
The grade shall be amended to read:- GV II*
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TL 14SW OLD WARDEN
5/114 Barns at Warden Abbey Farm 16.3.72
GV II
Barns. Late C16. Formed part of Robert Gostwick's Warden Abbey complex. Variety of brick, mostly red, some yellow, with some diaper patterning. Some 2 inch brickwork. Some stone dressings. Clay tile roofs. L-plan, large barn to W and long lower barn to E. W barn: 2-stage angle buttresses with stone dressings. Entrance to W elevation has been altered and repaired. E elevation has plank door, with smaller buttress to L. 5-bay roof structure has tenoned purlins on 2 levels, with 2 rows of curved wind braces, and collars and queen struts. Gable ends at roof level are weatherboarded. E barn: variety of openings to S elevation, somewhat altered and repaired, the double plank doors to RH breaking through the eaves level. 6-bay roof structure has 2 levels of clasped purlins with collars and struts, and some curved wind braces. E gable end at roof level is rendered.
Listing NGR: TL1195843926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414254
- 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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