Old Greenend Farmhouse
OLD GREENEND FARMHOUSE, COMMON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321292
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Old Greenend Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OLD GREENEND FARMHOUSE, COMMON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321292
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Old Greenend Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD GREENEND FARMHOUSE, COMMON 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:
- OLD GREENEND FARMHOUSE, COMMON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kensworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02108 18369
Details
TL 01 NW KENSWORTH COMMON ROAD
42/1030 Old Greenend Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Probably C16, extended in early C19. Timber frame faced in painted brick; extended in Flemish bond painted brick. Plain tile roofs with gabled ends. Brick gable end and axial stacks. Plan: L-shaped on plan. 2-room plan front range with central entrance, both rooms heated from gable end stacks; the left room is an early C19 extension or rebuild (brick at rear inscribed A E 1827). Long wing at rear of right hand room contains timber framing and has later, partly rebuilt, extension at its south end. Exterior: 2 storey. Asymmetrical 3-window north front range. C20 2 and 3-light casements, ground floor left C19 16-pane sash. Central doorway with pilastered doorcase, bracketed canopy, rectangular overlight and glazed and panelled door. On left of front a brick platband at first floor level. Left gable end has some exposed timber framing and external brick stack with set-offs. Right hand gable end has hatch to attic in gable with small plank door. Long single storey and attic wing at rear with C20 casements, flat roof dormer and roof light; south end rebuilt in brick. Interior: Chamfered and stopped ceiling beams. Exposed timber frame with jowled posts and curved braces to tie-beams, collars with clasped purlins and curved wind-braces.
Listing NGR: TL0210818369
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36194
- 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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