Description

The following building shall be added:

QUAKER STREET
TQ 3382
(south side)
788-/8/10028 Bedford House, formerly the
Bedford Institute Association

II

Also known as: Bedford House, formerly Bedford Institute
Association WHEELER STREET.
Mission building run by the Quaker Bedford Institute
Association, 1894 to designs by Rutland Saunders. Red brick
(from Rowlands Castle Brick Fields) in English bond and glazed
brick, with brick, Monks Park stone and terracotta dressings.
Roofs of slate, with a pair of ogee capped venilators; five
pedimented dormers to the return. Two storeys and attic.
Three-window, gable-facing range to Quaker Street, with stair
range under Dutch gable to right. Returning at oblique angle
to Wheeler Street: five-window range before gable-facing,
shallow projecting bay of four windows; facing gable has three
storeys; stair range to rear party wall. All openings are
segmental or round arched, with voussoirs of stone and brick
aprons; the surface is articulated by a series of sill,
springing and storey bands; the ranges by shallow brick piers.
Main entrance in centre of facing gable to Quaker Street, set
in two-storey aedicule consisting of pilasters to broken
pediment with oriel above, all set in two-storey, arched
recess; the aedicule made from stone or stucco and painted;
metal sign bracket projecting from broken pediment. Second
entrance to stair range at right. Service entrance in second
range from corner, flat-arched, set under sill of ground-floor
window; entrance in stair range to rear of site. Railings
enclose small area at foot of return wall. Gable facing range
with paired windows to each floor. Parapet to roof on
five-window range return with inset panels of terracotta
ornament; scrollwork to shallow pediments of dormers above.

Listing NGR: TQ3360582092

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q25403724

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)