Description

TQ 75 NE
9/138

BEDFORD PLACE (North Side)
No 3

(Formerly listed as No 2)

30.7.51

GV
II
A C17 timber-framed house restored and altered about 1840. Three storeys stuccoed. The second floor overhangs on a continuous bressumer with three gables over, with pendants.Slate roof. Square-headed sash windows on the ground and first floors with obtusely pointed panes and wooden dripstones over, the glazing bars intact. Similar casement windows on the second floor in the gables. Porch with clustered columns and pedinet. Doorway with obtusely pointed fanlights and doors of six panels with hexafoil design in each. The first and second floors of the east front overhang on bressumers, of which the upper one has the date 1632 on it. Gable above. The west front has a chimney breast, stuccoed like the rest of the house, and the second floor overhangs on a bressumer with gable above.

Nos 3 and 4 to 7 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ7530455579

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26620674

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)