Description

1.
774 BEDFORD STREET
(West Side)

No 2
TL 0338 1/119 17.7.51.

II

2.
On the site of the ancient Moot-Hall, an ornate corner-building designed
in the Jacobean revival style by Edward Blore in 1852. 2 storeys of mottled
brick with shaped gables. Facades of 45 and 15 ft facing onto Bedford
and Woburn Streets respectively. Red brick dressing and moulding to the
mullioned windows of varying sizes. Graded partly on account of the Town
Clock:-
Riding the tiled roof near the crossroads, is the wooden Clock-tower of
circa 1700. The Clock is set in a square base supporting a carved cupola
formed by 8 columns enclosing alternate round and flat arches, surmounted
by a deeply moulded cornice, above which a pagoda-like leaden roof rises
from its octagonal base to a slender pinnacle. Higher still rises an ornamental
wrought iron spike, carrying a gilded weather vane and 2 onion- shaped
red wooden finials. See drawing of 1813 in FCB, showing this structure
on the original Moot-Hall: also VCH page 268.

Listing NGR: TL0347138121

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26607368

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)