Lodge to Melchbourne Park
LODGE TO MELCHBOURNE PARK, SWINESHEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321258
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge to Melchbourne Park
- Statutory Address:
- LODGE TO MELCHBOURNE PARK, SWINESHEAD ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321258
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge to Melchbourne Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- LODGE TO MELCHBOURNE PARK, SWINESHEAD 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:
- LODGE TO MELCHBOURNE PARK, SWINESHEAD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Riseley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 04704 63550
Details
TL 0463 RISELEY SWINESHEAD ROAD
11/189 Lodge to Melchbourne Park
4.6.74 II
Lodge. 1832 by Henry Garling for Lord St. John. Ashlar, with limestone tiles to roof. 2-storeyed main wing, with single storey wings to 3 sides. Neo-Tudor style. S elevation: LH block has one 2-light casement. Central block has canted bay to ground floor, 2-light casement with label to first floor surmounted by carved plaque with St. John arms. RH block has gabled porch with 4-centred doorhead and entrance, the latter with moulded dripstone and stops, with Neo-Tudor chimney stack to rear. Decorated bargeboards and drop finials to gables. W elevation chimney stack has datestone. C20 flat roofed extension to W elevation. ("Garling, Henry", H.M. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of English Architects. London. 1954. p.225.)
Listing NGR: TL0470463550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36400
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 225
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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