Russett's Lodge
RUSSETT'S LODGE, PARK HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321450
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Russett's Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- RUSSETT'S LODGE, PARK HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321450
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Russett's Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUSSETT'S LODGE, PARK HILL
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:
- RUSSETT'S LODGE, PARK HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ampthill
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0309538396
Details
TL 0338 1/130
774
PARK HILL
Russett's Lodge
(Formerly listed as no. 41 (Russett's Lodge))
17.7.51.
II
Late C18 adaptation by Chambers of a small late C17 building. On a frontage
of barely 20 ft, a classical design with regular pedimented facade, containing
a plain 6-panel door flanked by severe stone pilasters, which support a
massive entablature. A narrow window on either side of the door, a larger
one on either side of the building, a small semi-circular one in the pediment.
The whole lodge is built in header courses, of red brick at the sides,
of mainly blue and other dark 'seconds' in front, the pediment infilled
with smooth-faced blue-glazed irregularly-shaped lumps of clay, in imitation
of flint-work. Heavy stone dressings: steps and plinth below, narrow
band at base of windows, long-and-short quoins and window edges, and stone
modillioned cornice. The whole classical lodge is added directly on to
a similarly shaped C17 building in red brick (English bond), with pronounced
coved eaves at a slightly lower level than Chambers' classical cornice.
Red tiled roof throughout. Originally this must have been a C17 double
cottage: the brick flat arch over a side door (of the unaltered section)
is continued over a bricked-up space for a second such door. Moreover
the pitch of (C17) roof was too steep for the correct angle of the classical
pediment, which deliberately forsakes the angle of the older tiled roof
behind it.
Listing NGR: TL0309538396
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37407
- 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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