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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