PECKS FARM CLOSE

PECKS FARM CLOSE, 3, AYLESBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031616
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: PECKS FARM CLOSE
Statutory Address:: PECKS FARM CLOSE, 3, AYLESBURY ROAD

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Date:: 2006-02-15
Reference:: IOE01/15301/24
Rights:: © Mr Richard Terence Beck. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031616
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1998
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Mar-2000
List Entry Name:: PECKS FARM CLOSE
Statutory Address 1:: PECKS FARM CLOSE, 3, AYLESBURY ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PECKS FARM CLOSE, 3, AYLESBURY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bierton
National Grid Reference:: SP 84327 15854

Details

SP 81 NW BIERTON WITH BROUGHTON AYLESBURY ROAD

569/1/10012 Number 3, Pecks Farm Close 27.02.1998

GV II

Farmhouse. Possibly C15 with addition 1st half C16 and mid-C17 modifications; C18, C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Timber framed with wattle and daub infill, some replaced by brick; pebble-dashed render to front and sides; painted brick at rear. Plain tile roof, with concrete tiles to front and clay tile: to rear; corrugated-iron roof to most of outshut. Brick stacks. 2-bay hall house with central crown post to right, addition of 2 framed bays with smoke-blackened roof timbers; floors inserted and large chimney stacks added, internally at left end and with partition wall inserted to create narrow bay; and externally at right end; rear outshut added under cat-slide roof and lean-to at each gable. South front: plinth to ; left-hand bays, and part-glazed door on right of this section. 2-Light window to left of door and two 3-Light windows beyond; two 3-Light gabled dormers above; and a 3-Light window to each floor o right-hand section, all windows wooden casements with vertical glazing bars. Left-hand stack rise through ridge near left end; right-hand stack is external, enclosed by lean-to which has board door, pebble-dashed front and weatherboard to side and rear. Left-hand lean-to timber-framed wit! weatherboard. Rear: outshut almost continuous, except across left end, has C20 window on left, blocked window on right, gabled 2-Light dormer above, and doorway to each return. Interior: ground floor ha chamfered spine-beams, that in right-hand cell terminating in entrance passage with lambs-tongue stop with truncated pyramid in hollow. At left end, built into gap behind stack, is C18 cupboard wit! open-fronted, round-arched, upper cupboard with decoratively carved shelves. The timber-framing c the rear wall is visible from the outshut and comprises large-scantling posts and mid-rail, close-space studs forming narrow rectangular panels, and some remaining wattle and daub. Square-panelled timber-framing of right-hand gable wall is visible inside lean-to. 1st floor: between left-hand bays is cambered tie-beam with crown post supporting collar purlin; post has broad corner chamfers an cyma-moulded head with cyma stops to chamfered sides; arch brace from rear wall-post to tie-bean. The extreme left-hand end, visible from inside lean-to, retains diagonally-set clasped purlins, some original rafters, and arched brace from rear wall-post to wall-plate. The inserted 1st-floor partition wall is of square-panelled timber-framing with brick infill. Other framing concealed by wall paper, but in right-hand bay at rear some original smoke-blackened rafters are exposed, and straight wind-braces. Old doors, panelled and plank, survive throughout; also wooden winder stair; and plain fireplace surround to left-hand room. An interesting and well-surviving example of a late-medieval hall-house with post-medieval addition.

Listing NGR: SP8432715854

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Legacy System number:: 469085
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.