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Latitude: 52.1299 / 52°7'47"N
Longitude: -0.4726 / 0°28'21"W
OS Eastings: 504651
OS Northings: 249059
OS Grid: TL046490
Mapcode National: GBR G25.FC7
Mapcode Global: VHFQ7.RQJK
Plus Code: 9C4X4GHG+XX
Entry Name: Entrance Gateway and Flanking Lodges to Former Britannia Iron Works
Listing Date: 6 September 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1274908
English Heritage Legacy ID: 35592
ID on this website: 101274908
Location: Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42
County: Bedford
Electoral Ward/Division: Cauldwell
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bedford
Traditional County: Bedfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bedfordshire
Church of England Parish: Bedford St John and St Leonard
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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KEMPSTON ROAD
Entrance gateway and flanking lodges to former Britannia Iron Works
II
Entrance gateway. 1857-9 by Robert Palgrave. Red brick with Portland stone
dressings. Italianate style. Wooden gates with decorative ironwork framed by
rusticated stone jambs and keyed stone semi-circular arch with raised lettering
and circular spandrels; dentilled imposts continued across raised brick piers
which have alternate stone quoining to lower stages and keyed semi-circular
arched Italinate lights to upper stage; bracketed cornice beneath parapet with
keyed stone round windows and surmounted by stone dock cupola with fish-scale
slates to domed roof. Flanking lodges, each of one bay, have paired Italinate
2-light windows and dentilled cornices continued from imposts of gateway; brick
end stacks with stone cornice. History: the Britannia Iron Works were founded
by James and Frederick Howard in order to manufacture agricultural machinery,
especially ploughs.
Listing NGR: TL0465149059
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