Herring's Green Farmhouse
HERRING'S GREEN FARMHOUSE, COTTON END ROAD, HERRING'S GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312651
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Herring's Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HERRING'S GREEN FARMHOUSE, COTTON END ROAD, HERRING'S GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312651
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Herring's Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HERRING'S GREEN FARMHOUSE, COTTON END ROAD, HERRING'S 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:
- HERRING'S GREEN FARMHOUSE, COTTON END ROAD, HERRING'S GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cotton End
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 08615 44524
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/09/2014
TL04 SE
6/57
EASTCOTTS,
HERRING'S GREEN,
COTTON END ROAD,
Herring's Green Farmhouse
(Formerly listed as Herring Green Farmhouse)
II
House. 1785-6 rebuilding (for Samuel Whitbread) of earlier house. Red brick,
rendered at basement level, with clay tile roof. Double-pile plan of 2
storeys and attics. 2-span roof with Dutch gables (an unusual feature in
Bedfordshire). Moulded brick bands at first floor and eaves level. SE
elevation : symmetrical facade. 4 flush sashes with glazing bars to ground
and first floors, all with flat arches, central C20 oculus to first floor, 2
gabled dormers with casements with glazing bars to attic. Central doorway and
flight of brick steps with stone dressings and ball finial are C20
replacements. 6 panel door with rectangular fanlight, with surround of plain
pilasters and open pediment, replacing earlier porch with open pediment on
slender columns. Wood modillion cornice is C20 replacement for original
parapet with Central pediment. 2 red brick integral stacks to each gable end.
SW gable end has circular plaque: "S.W,1785, restored S.W. 1961-2, restored
S.C.W. 1973-4".
(Bedfordshire Record Office: W2/6/1-2 (1794); P38/28/1-2 (1782-9); W931-49.
Also, cf, MHLG Provisional List, 1960).
Listing NGR: TL0861544524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36691
- 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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