Jevington House
JEVINGTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031906
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Jevington House
- Statutory Address:
- JEVINGTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031906
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Jevington House
- Statutory Address 1:
- JEVINGTON HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- JEVINGTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Penn
- National Grid Reference:
- SU9285892475
Details
985/0/10020
10-OCT-02
PENN
KNOTTY GREEN
Jevington House
II
House. Dated 1908. C.H. Biddulph-Pinchard FRIBA [1876-1944] for Charles S. Preston. Wychert and brick, rendered, on limestone rubble plinth with clinkered yellow brick quoins. Entrance wing timber-framed with re-used timbers. Plain tile roofs. Red brick chimneys. Arts and Crafts/Domestic Revival style house of 1-and-1-half and 2 storeys in a butterfly or sun-trap plan.
EXTERIOR: Garden elevation to South has butterfly plan with L-plan wings linked by central angled bay. This bay and gable ends have canted bay windows and tile-hung gables overhanging on wooden brackets with ball pendants. Entrance wing to North has timber framing, the north gable overhanging a 1st floor oriel on crude timber braces, and a ground floor with patterned brick infill. Oak door with carved panels in east side. Service wing to north has outshot extension of rendered concrete blocks, and west elevation with 3 half-timbered dormers and service door. West elevation of main house continues to right with set of 3 gables, and single-storey projecting extension of c.1930-40. Right side of this extension formerly open as loggia, with circular piers, continuing into ground floor of main gable return. Black finished wooden casements with plain glazing throughout.
INTERIOR: Reception rooms with re-used oak panelling and doors assembled mostly from former shutters. Living room extends into angled bay, and has full panelling, and large inglenook with side seats and cupboards forming V recesses in either side. Dining room has canted corner doors, dado panelling and pilasters flaking arched fireplace with tile-on-edge voussoirs. Hall has further panelling, oak entrance screen with leaded glazing, and twisted baluster stair with arched screen to upper landing. Upper rooms plain with simple 3-panle doors. Some of the panelling is C17 Dutch oak panelling.
HISTORY: The Witchert House [now Jevington House] was built for Henry Dixon-Davis, solicitor for the Great Central Railway, shortly after the 1906 opening of the branch line that linked Beaconsfield to Haddenham.
Arts and Crafts style house built as a rare example of the use of wychert outside of the Aylesbury Vale.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489799
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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