Three Ways Cottage

Three Ways Cottage, West End Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 8RY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300794
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: Three Ways Cottage
Statutory Address:: Three Ways Cottage, West End Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 8RY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300794
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: Three Ways Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Three Ways Cottage, West End Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 8RY

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:: Three Ways Cottage, West End Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 8RY

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

District:: Bedford (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kempston Rural
National Grid Reference:: SP9995448395

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 May 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SP 94 NE 10/10000

KEMPSTON WEST END ROAD Three Ways Cottage

(Formerly listed as Threeways Farmhouse)

II House. Circa late C18. Plastered timber frame on stone rubble plinth and with stone rubble south gable end. Corrugated iron sheet roof with gabled ends. Gable end stacks with brick shafts, south end projecting stone rubble stack.

Plan: central through passage and two rooms heated from gable end stacks; the smaller right hand room has pantry at rear entered from passage.

Exterior: one storey and attic. Almost symmetrical two window east front. Late C18 or C19 three-light casements with glazing bars; smaller attic casements in eyebrow eaves with pointed arch top panes. Central doorway with plank door and later gabled timber porch clad in corrugated iron sheets. At rear central doorway with pilastered case, small canopy and plank door.

Interior: ground floor rooms have roughly chamfered axial beams. Small fireplaces with cast-iron ranges; left hand room (kitchen) has moulded shelf and winder stairs to side of stack. Simple balustrade at top of stairs. Other original joinery includes simple two-panel doors on both floors. Left hand chamber has Victorian cast-iron grate. Chambers ceiled and only wall plates exposed. Where plaster has fallen the light scantling timber frame is exposed externally.

Listing NGR: SP9995448395

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Legacy System number:: 350269
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.