The Log Hut
THE LOG HUT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321673
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Log Hut
- Statutory Address:
- THE LOG HUT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321673
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Log Hut
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LOG HUT
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:
- THE LOG HUT
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 95605 34457
Details
SP 93 SE WOBURN WOBURN PARK 3/194 The Log Hut - II Garden house. Built c,1838 for John 6th Duke of Bedford. North American style log cabin set in glade of evergreen trees. Coursed ironstone plinth. Upper part of logs which retain their bark, apparently encasing brick structure. Roof of fishscale shingles, with logs to ridges. Deep verges to gables, undersides with logwork facing. Irregular cross-shaped plan. Single-storeyed. SW gable has part-glazed double doors with twigwork decoration. This is reached by flight of timber steps with moulded timber balustrade. N angle has twigwork door up flight of stone steps. Other elevations have casement windows with plank shutters. Substantial ironstone ridge stack with 3 linked moulded square shafts. Bedfordshire Record Office: CRT 130 Woburn 33, notes on the Log House, Woburn, compiled by Marie P G Draper, Archivist to Bedford Estates.
Listing NGR: SP9560534457
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38290
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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