Orchard House
ORCHARD HOUSE, 34, CHURCH GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300791
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, 34, CHURCH GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300791
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, 34, CHURCH GREEN
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:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, 34, CHURCH GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Totternhoe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 98884 21185
Details
SP 9821 TOTTERNHOE CHURCH GREEN
32/10021 No 34 Orchard House
- II
House. Circa C16/17, partly rebuilt in C18 and remodelled and extended in C19. Timber- framed faced in Flemish bond brick and partly Flemish bond brick with burnt headers. Welsh slate roofs with gabled ends. Brick gable end and axial stack. Plan: 3-room plan with 4th room in wing behind right hand end. Timber-framed centre and right hand bays; the centre bay with small stack bay on left with lobby entrance at front; the right hand bay with cellar below and built out later at front. The left hand end was rebuilt in brick in circa C18. In C19 the rest of the house was faced in brick and later in C19 a wing was built at the rear (SW). Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window N front. 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars and cambered brick arches; right end projects and has C19 20-pane sash on ground floor; diaper pattern brickwork on left; 4-panel door to left of centre with gabled canopy. 3-light casements and doorways with cambered brick arches at rear. W side has casements and C19 20-pane sash. Interior: Centre room broad joists and axial beam all chamfered with long hollow step stops, beam supported on post with moulded head and large fireplace with unchamfered elm lintel. Right hand bay divided axially, rear with large unchamfered joists and exposed wallfiaming, cellar below with chamfered beam. Left room partitioned. Rear wing chamfered axial beam with runout stops. Centre and right chambers exposed wall framing with tension braces and jowled posts and partitions with exposed frames.
Listing NGR: SP9888421185
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350248
- 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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