Abbey Square
1-9, ABBEY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277575
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Square
- Statutory Address:
- 1-9, ABBEY SQUARE
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- Date:
- 1999-08-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/00946/33
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277575
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-9, ABBEY SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- ABBEY SQUARE, 1-9, HIGH STREET
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:
- 1-9, ABBEY SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY SQUARE, 1-9, HIGH STREET
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 94465 52465
Details
TURVEY HIGH STREET SP 9452-9552 (N. Side)
29/603 1-9 (consec) Abbey Square - GV II
Terrace of estate cottages arranged around two sides of a courtyard. Terrace was mainly built mid-C19 as an addition to a late C17 or C18 building now in the N. range. Coursed limestone rubble. Old clay tile roof. Two storeys. W. range consists of three cottages of 2-bay plan. E. elevation has central gable with decorated bargeboards. First floor: five 2-light casement windows with glazing bars. Same arrangement of windows to ground floor with each cottage having central pedimented doorhood on slender timber piers. N. most one in angle with N. range. N. range consists of really 2 groups of cottages. W. L-plan block with projecting gabled wing to W. side. 3 cottages. Main block has central gable. Cottages have similar arrangement of casement windows with glazing bars and doorhoods. E. block symmetrical arrangement with forward projecting gabled wing to each end. This block contains the earliest work. 2-light casements with glazing bars in central wing. W. gable end has C20 casements. 3-light casements in E. gable.
Listing NGR: SP9446552465
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431022
- 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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