The Thatched House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1970. Cottage.
The Thatched House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-frieze-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1970
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 1243 OLD WARDEN HIGH STREET (West Side)
12/153 No.41 (The Thatched House) 22.10.70
GV II
Shuttleworth Estate cottage. Earlier C19, possibly encasing an earlier building. Cottage ornee style. Colourwashed roughcast over timber frame. Thatched roof. 2-room plan, one storey and attics. Ground floor has 2 canted bay windows with hexagonal leading, twigwork decoration to sills and cornices, and semi-pyramidal roofs. Attic has 2 eyebrow dormers with semi-circular casements which have radiating glazing bars. Central doorway now blocked. Central stuccoed ridge stack with spiralling moulded decoration. Highly decorated pierced bargeboards continue around eaves of front and rear elevations, returning around dormer eaves. Gable ends each have attic window of 3 pointed-arched leaded lights under square head, with square moulded label. Below each is doorway within rustic open porch with gabled thatched hood.
Listing NGR: TL1365843732
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