Bunyan's Mead
BUNYAN'S MEAD, 12-17, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321609
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Bunyan's Mead
- Statutory Address:
- BUNYAN'S MEAD, 12-17, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321609
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bunyan's Mead
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUNYAN'S MEAD, 12-17, HIGH 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:
- BUNYAN'S MEAD, 12-17, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Elstow
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 05009 47493
Details
TL 0547 ELSTOW HIGH STREET (East Side)
8/73 Nos. 12 to 17 (consec.) Bunyan's Mead (formerly listed as nos 184, 185 and 186, 187, 188) 13.7.64 GV II
Row of houses. C16 or earlier, C17, Cl8, and restored 1976-77. Timber framed, mostly with colourwashed plaster infill, but weatherboarding to no. 16. Clay tile roofs. 3 properties form 2-storeyed row bordering road, with nos. 12 and 14 as one-storey and attics block projecting from rear at N end. Slight variations in roofline and in frontage line. Front elevation: no. 15 has heaviest, earliest timbering and jettied first floor, with C2C brackets. Variety of casements, mostly C20 with glazing bars, but no. 16 retains some with leaded lights. C20 doors. Rebuilt brick ridge stack to no. 16. N elevation of nos. 12 and 14: lighter timbering. C20 doors and windows. 3 gabled dormers. 2 rebuilt red brick ridge stacks.
Listing NGR: TL0500947493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 36710
- 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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