Description

SP 9433-9533 WOBURN WOBURN PARK
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23.1.61 Centre N block of
Bloomsbury Stud, forming
part of Park Farm complex
GV II
Former cow houses belonging to Park Farm. This model farm was begun 1795 by
Robert Salmon, resident architect and 'mechanist' to the estate, for Francis
5th Duke of Bedford. This block is of slightly later date and does not
appear on George Garrard's painting of Woburn Sheep Shearing (1804, but
probably depicting scene of c.1801). Coursed ironstone. Slate roofs. Low
single-storeyed blocks arranged around small rectangular yard, main elevation
facing E. Rustic Neo-classical style. E elevation: symmetrical, with
central 2-storeyed slightly projecting gable and single-storeyed slightly
projecting gables to each end. Central gable has elliptical-arched recess
containing 4-light window. Arched head rises into first floor, and is
surmounted by round-arched window. Impost string course is in line with
eaves of flanking single-storey wings. Each of latter has 2 3-light windows.
All windows except first floor one are casements with ornamental geometric
glazing bars, possibly c.1830. Outer gables each have plank door. Deep
eaves and verges with moulded timber cornices. Louvred ridge ventilators to
roofs. The 5th and 6th Dukes were interested in estate management and
agricultural developments. Park Farm was intended as a place to demonstrate
new agricultural technology, and was the setting for the annual Woburn Sheep
Shearing.
Bedfordshire Record Office: R Box 818 bundle 18/26, plans and elevations for
"Feeding Sheds", n.d. but probably early C19; J M Robinson, "Farming on a
Princely Scale: Estate buildings of the 5th and 6th Dukes of Bedford at Woburn
1787-1839", Architectural Review, November 1976, pp 276-279.

Listing NGR: SP9596533296

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26452124

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