Description

KEMPSTON RURAL GREEN END ROAD
TL 04NW
11/212 Kempston House
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- II

Remains of late C16 or early C17 timber-framed house with rear C18 wing. The
building was further extended and extensively remodelled in the mid-C19. The
original wing is of close-studded timber-framing with red brick nogging.
Hipped old clay tile roof. Two storeys and attics. Large ridge chimney
stack. Three box dormers. Three first floor sashes. Ground floor has two
rectangular hipped roof bays with French doors flanked by single light
casements with glazing bars. S.W. elevation ground floor has been underpinned
in brick. This and north-west return were originally jettied. N.W. elevation
has double pitched colourwashed brick extension and C19 one storey lean-to.
Extensively remodelled and north-east wing added C19. Red brick rectangular
wing with hipped slated roof. The N.E. elevation is stuccoed. Two storeys.
N.E. elevation has three first floor sashes with glazing bars and three ground
floor French doors, the right hand opening now blocked.

Listing NGR: TL0082547354

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26408080

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)