Milton Ernest Hall
MILTON ERNEST HALL, BEDFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1310881
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Milton Ernest Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MILTON ERNEST HALL, BEDFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1310881
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Milton Ernest Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILTON ERNEST HALL, BEDFORD ROAD
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:
- MILTON ERNEST HALL, BEDFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton Ernest
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01704 55731
Details
MILTON ERNEST BEDFORD ROAD TL 05NW 6/248 Milton Ernest Hall 14.6.71 GV I
William Butterfield's only complete country house, 1853-58, a confident Gothic Revival design. Coursed local limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, red brick relieving arches over windows, some chequer brick and stone work, clay tile roofs. The main block is L-plan with a steep high roof and tall rectangular multiple ridge stacks. North (entrance) facade has sequence of three gables descending from left to right, the left hand half-hipped; the projecting two storey entrance is on the right; to its left is the main staircase which has three large traceried windows under chequer brick and stone work. The south (garden) front has a gable on the left hand: on the ground floor there are two 2-light windows separated by a buttress, and two 2- light windows on the first floor. To the right is a three storey projection from a shallow hipped gable with tall narrow bay windows culminating in an elaborate timber gable. Four dormers in roof. Alternate stone and brick voussoirs to windows. The east elevation has a two storey bay on the left hand with a conical roof, two dormers and a conservatory, two ground floor buttresses and five first floor pairs of windows. The west (river) elevation has kitchen and sculleries recessed below terraces in front, with four gables and three decorated roof ridges behind. Part of garden area (now Garden Centre) defined by stone walls attached to house. Altered interior: wooden chimney pieces with simple Gothic detailing; Gothic tracery to staircase. Paul Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971; Mark Girouard, The Victorian Country House, 1979.
Listing NGR: TL0170455731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37018
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1971)
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971)
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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