ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND FLANKING LODGES TO FORMER BRITANNIA IRON WORKS

ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND FLANKING LODGES TO FORMER BRITANNIA IRON WORKS, KEMPSTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274908
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND FLANKING LODGES TO FORMER BRITANNIA IRON WORKS
Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND FLANKING LODGES TO FORMER BRITANNIA IRON WORKS, KEMPSTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274908
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND FLANKING LODGES TO FORMER BRITANNIA IRON WORKS
Statutory Address 1:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND FLANKING LODGES TO FORMER BRITANNIA IRON WORKS, KEMPSTON ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND FLANKING LODGES TO FORMER BRITANNIA IRON WORKS, KEMPSTON ROAD

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

District:: Bedford (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 04651 49059

Details

TL 0449 1/128

KEMPSTON ROAD Entrance gateway and flanking lodges to former Britannia Iron Works

II

Entrance gateway. 1857-9 by Robert Palgrave. Red brick with Portland stone dressings. Italianate style. Wooden gates with decorative ironwork framed by rusticated stone jambs and keyed stone semi-circular arch with raised lettering and circular spandrels; dentilled imposts continued across raised brick piers which have alternate stone quoining to lower stages and keyed semi-circular arched Italinate lights to upper stage; bracketed cornice beneath parapet with keyed stone round windows and surmounted by stone dock cupola with fish-scale slates to domed roof. Flanking lodges, each of one bay, have paired Italinate 2-light windows and dentilled cornices continued from imposts of gateway; brick end stacks with stone cornice. History: the Britannia Iron Works were founded by James and Frederick Howard in order to manufacture agricultural machinery, especially ploughs.

Listing NGR: TL0465149059

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Legacy System number:: 35592
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.