Blunham Court Blunham House
BLUNHAM COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312357
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Blunham Court Blunham House
- Statutory Address:
- BLUNHAM COURT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312357
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Blunham Court Blunham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLUNHAM COURT
- Statutory Address 2:
- BLUNHAM HOUSE
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:
- BLUNHAM COURT
- Statutory Address:
- BLUNHAM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blunham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15144 50954
Details
TL 15SE BLUNHAM 2/1 Blunham Court and Blunham 16.1.52 House
- II
Small country house now subdivided. Probably circa 1720-30 for Thomas Bromsall (Bedfordshire Record Office, X336), with various C19 additions and alterations. Red brick. Hipped roofs, partly of clay tile, partly of slate. Earlier block to W, with later additions to N, S and E, forming quadrangle around small courtyard. N block of 3 storeys, other blocks of 2 storeys. W elevation: 6 window facade, giving symmetrical impression, with central bay projecting slightly, RH 2 window range of same width as LH 3 window range. Central bay ground floor has 6 moulded panel front door with side-lights and rectangular fanlight, within stone Doric porch. First floor Palladian window with stone surround. LH and RH bays, probably raised from one to 2 storeys at later date, have sash windows with glazing bars, mostly under slightly cambered gauged brick heads. LH bay has tripartite sash to ground floor RH. RH bay has full-length sash to RH ground floor, surmounted by first floor dummy window. Stone cornice and stone coped parapet. S elevation: 3:4:3 window ranges, mostly of later date. Stone coped parapet continues from main front. Cornice is of moulded brick. Brick first floor bands to central and RH ranges. "Payne" incised in brick surround of LH ground floor window of E block. Blunham House was at one time the house of Sir Peter Payne (1763-1843) a Bedfordshire reformer of the early C19.
Listing NGR: TL1514450954
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37927
- 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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