Three Ways Cottage
Three Ways Cottage, West End Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 8RY
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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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 1:
- Three Ways Cottage, West End Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 8RY
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350269
- 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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