Chinese Dairy and Adjoining Covered Ways
CHINESE DAIRY AND ADJOINING COVERED WAYS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321667
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Chinese Dairy and Adjoining Covered Ways
- Statutory Address:
- CHINESE DAIRY AND ADJOINING COVERED WAYS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321667
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Chinese Dairy and Adjoining Covered Ways
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHINESE DAIRY AND ADJOINING COVERED WAYS
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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:
- CHINESE DAIRY AND ADJOINING COVERED WAYS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 96637 32625
Details
SP 9632-9732,
10/151
WOBURN,
WOBURN PARK
Chinese Dairy and adjoining covered ways
23.01.61
GV
I
Ornamental dairy in Chinese Chippendale style. Circa 1788 by Henry Holland
for Francis 5th Duke of Bedford. Flanking covered ways are simpler and not
Chinese in style, and may be later additions. Porch added soon after 1804 by
Humphry Repton. Mainly of painted timber, with slate roofs. Dairy: small
square building sited on western edge of ornamental pond. Single-storeyed,
with shallow cross-gabled roof. Flat-roofed verandah around N, E and S
elevations. W elevation built up against coursed ironstone wall. E
elevation has central part-glazed double doors flanked by casement windows of
same proportions. N and S elevations have large central windows. Gable of
each elevation pierced by segmental-arched light. Roof is surmounted by
octagonal lantern with fretwork sides and canopied roof. Verandah has timber
columns with moulded bases and ornamental cut timber brackets to top.
Geometrical trelliswork balustrading between columns and forming verandah
parapet. Paved with hexagonal stones. External paintwork is predominantly
red and white. INTERIOR: ornate painted decoration, probably by John Grace
(Pevsner p.170), mostly mock fretwork and bamboo-work, in blue-grey, orchre,
gold and black. Round-arched alcoves within angles give room octagonal form.
Windows contain painted glass showing figures, birds, insects and foliage. S
window includes "John Theodore Perrache fecit. 1794." Grey marble and ceramic
tiles to lower part of walls. Stone paving (including marble) to floor.
Around walls and to centre of room are bamboo and fretwork tables with marble
tops. Bamboo and painted gauze lantern suspended from centre of ceiling.
An important example of late C18 chinoiserie. Covered ways: adjoin to N and
S, N one linking dairy to game larders (see item 10/150 ), S one running
along rest of W side and part of S side of pond. Hollow-chamfered timber
piers and timber segmental arches surmounted by gabled roof. Similar colour
scheme to dairy exterior.
Bedfordshire Record Office: CRT 130 Woburn 47, Notes on the park and garden
buildings at Woburn Abbey, compiled by C Rhodes.
Listing NGR: SP9663732625
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38254
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 170
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 2 Bedfordshire,
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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