Highlands Farmhouse

HIGHLANDS FARMHOUSE, 33, BEDFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1321723
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:
Highlands Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HIGHLANDS FARMHOUSE, 33, BEDFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1321723
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:
Highlands Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HIGHLANDS FARMHOUSE, 33, BEDFORD ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HIGHLANDS FARMHOUSE, 33, BEDFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Northill
National Grid Reference:
TL 13418 46130

Details

TL 14NW NORTHILL BEDFORD ROAD No. 33 3/43 ( Highlands Farmhouse )

GV II

House. Circa 1805-9 for William Walker, a sugar refiner from Houndsditch (Reds Record Office: HY465-475). Restored C20. Red brick. Slate roofs. Double-pile building of almost square plan, 2 storeys on a basement. Hipped 2-span roof. E elevation: 5 bay symmetrical facade. Basement has one central window. 4 windows to piano nobile, 5 to first floor, all sashes with glazing bars, with gauged brick flat arches. Central doorway has gauged brick semi- circular head, semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars and fielded panel door in moulded surround. 2-wing perron, rebuilt C20. Similar fenestration elsewhere. Red brick integral stacks to side elevations. Interior: ground floor retains many original doors and surrounds. Also retained are some original cast iron firegrates, although fire surrounds are C20 wood copies of marble originals. Staircase is also C20 copy.

Listing NGR: TL1341846130

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
37971
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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