Engineering Works
ENGINEERING WORKS, WOBURN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321718
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Engineering Works
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINEERING WORKS, WOBURN LANE
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- Date:
- 2006-06-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/14898/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321718
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Engineering Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINEERING WORKS, WOBURN LANE
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:
- ENGINEERING WORKS, WOBURN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aspley Guise
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 94348 35655
Details
SP 9435-9535 ASPLEY GUISE WOBURN LANE 7/28 Engineering Works (former National School) GV II Former National School, now engineering works. 1847-50 by Richard Sheppard of Newport Pagnell, founded by the Rev. John Vaux Moore. Coursed ironstone with ashlar dressings. Clay fishscale tile roofs. Loosely Tudor in style. One storey and one storey and attics. Rectangular block with roughly central projecting gable. LH bay has doorway to LH and one 3-light mullioned window to each floor of RH. Upper window rises through eaves level into gabled dormer. Small gabled block projects from LH. Projecting gable has large 4- light mullion and transom window with moulded label. Above this is small louvred single light. Gable surmounted by small bellcote. RH bay has small projecting gable to centre, with 2-light mullioned window under moulded label. Flanking this gable are 2 3-light mullion and transome windows. All windows have ornamental cast iron casements in hexagonal pattern. All gables have stone coping and kneelers. Ridge and gable end stacks to LH bay with ornamental moulded pots. Woburn Sands and District Society: The Story of Aspley Guise, 1980 pp. 19, 57-9: Beds Record Office: 3865/4, Plan of the National School, 1847.
Listing NGR: SP9434835655
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38131
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Woburn Sands, , District Society, , The Story of Aspley Guise, (1980), 57-59
Woburn Sands, , District Society, , The Story of Aspley Guise, (1980), 14
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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