Fountaines Farmhouse
FOUNTAINES FARMHOUSE, SOUTH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379934
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Fountaines Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNTAINES FARMHOUSE, SOUTH END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379934
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Fountaines Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUNTAINES FARMHOUSE, SOUTH END
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:
- FOUNTAINES FARMHOUSE, SOUTH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton Bryan
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 97358 30092
Details
MILTON BRYAN
SP 9730 SOUTH END
1846/12/10006 Fountaine's Farmhouse
17-MAY-00
II
Farmhouse and attached service range. 1875, with late C20 alterations. By William Clutton, architect of London for the Duke of Bedford.
MATERIALS : Smooth red brick with ashlar stone and decorative brick detailing, tall brick ridge and gable chimneys with clustered stacks and substantial brick caps. Clay tile roof covering.
PLAN: linear arrangement of house and outbuilding , aligned north-east- south -west, the house L-shaped with wing extending south-eastwards, and attached service range to south-west end enclosing a small courtyard.
FRONT ( north-west ) ELEVATION of 2 storeys and 4 bays set on a shallow chamfered plinth, with single storey bay to south-west end. Off-centre entrance enclosed by gabled porch with open arcaded ground floor, the posts with short diagonal braces. Ashlar surround to enclosed doorway and plank door. Above, first floor 4-light mullioned window with dripmould below gablet with painted box-farme decoration. Bay to left with transomed 4-light window to ground floor below dentilled string course. To right of porch, single light opening below 2 light upper floor window, and then stacked 6-light windows with major mullions to end bay Single storey bay is blind, with low enclosure wall fronting service court.
REAR ELEVATION with advanced half hipped gable to right with canted ground floor , and 6-light transomed window to ground floor below 6 -light first floor window, both openings with major mullions.. To left, set back gabled stair tower with 2-light transomed window at half landing level.
Main range extends left with plain rear doorway and Late C20 inserted screen, below 6-light mullioned window set on brick cill band.. At south-west end , advanced part of service court range with hipped end encloses rear of service court. The l-shaped service range has shallow arched heads to doors and windows, and glazing bar window frames.
INTERIOR: Entrance hall with doorways having 4 -panelled doors leads to principal stair, with square underpanelling, closely spaced splat balusters, and newel posts with polygonal finials. Plain surrounds to hearths at ground and first floor levels, with semi-circular grates. 4-panelled doors to upper floor rooms .
A substantial late C19 farmhouse with attached service range, designed by William Clutton for the Bedford Estate, little -altered externally, and which illustrates the investment in new and architecturally distinctive farmsteads by a major landed estate in the 'High Farming' period of the second half of the C19.
Listing NGR: SP9735830092
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479380
- 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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