2, BEDFORD STREET
2, BEDFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321468
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 2, BEDFORD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, BEDFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321468
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 2, BEDFORD STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, BEDFORD STREET
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:
- 2, BEDFORD STREET
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:
- TL0347138121
Details
1.
774 BEDFORD STREET
(West Side)
No 2
TL 0338 1/119 17.7.51.
II
2.
On the site of the ancient Moot-Hall, an ornate corner-building designed
in the Jacobean revival style by Edward Blore in 1852. 2 storeys of mottled
brick with shaped gables. Facades of 45 and 15 ft facing onto Bedford
and Woburn Streets respectively. Red brick dressing and moulding to the
mullioned windows of varying sizes. Graded partly on account of the Town
Clock:-
Riding the tiled roof near the crossroads, is the wooden Clock-tower of
circa 1700. The Clock is set in a square base supporting a carved cupola
formed by 8 columns enclosing alternate round and flat arches, surmounted
by a deeply moulded cornice, above which a pagoda-like leaden roof rises
from its octagonal base to a slender pinnacle. Higher still rises an ornamental
wrought iron spike, carrying a gilded weather vane and 2 onion- shaped
red wooden finials. See drawing of 1813 in FCB, showing this structure
on the original Moot-Hall: also VCH page 268.
Listing NGR: TL0347138121
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37323
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Bedford, (1904), 268
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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