Description

SP 93 SE WOBURN WOBURN PARK
SP 9433-9533
3/184 & 8/184
Bloomsbury Stud Stables
and adjoining buildings
23.1.61 forming SE part of Park
Farm complex
GV II
Stables and adjoining buildings forming SE part of Park Farm. This model farm
was designed 1795 (completed 1797) by Robert Salmon, resident architect and
'mechanist' to the estate, for Francis 5th Duke of Bedford. Red brick, the
main elevations in coursed ironstone. Shallow pitched slate roofs. Main
block is long low structure (approximately 50 metres long) continuing line of
main front of item 8/183, with various blocks adjoining to rear
(S). Rustic Neo-classical style. N (front elevation: symmetrical
arrangement. 2-storeyed central gable linked to 2 single-storeyed outer
gables by single-storeyed ranges. Gables project slightly. Central gable has
broad central recess, its semi-circular arch springing from first floor level.
Impost string course continuing across central recess is in line with eaves
cornices of flanking ranges. Central recess contains plank door with
sidelights, the latter being casements with ornamental geometric glazing bars
of c.1830. First floor has 2-light casement within recess arch, and clockface
above arch. Roof surmounted by timber pyramidal-roofed bell-cote. Flanking
single-storeyed ranges and outer gables formerly had doors and windows similar
to those in central gable recess, but now replaced by C20 double stable doors.
Deep eaves and verges with moulded timber cornices. The 5th Duke was deeply
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, depicted in George Garrard's
1804 painting and engraving of the same subject.
Bedfordshire Record Office: R Box 818 bundle 18/19 ff, elevations of stables,
n.d.; 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: SP9600533238

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26598026

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