Gardeners Cottage and Attached Walls and Pavilions
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119744
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Gardeners Cottage and Attached Walls and Pavilions
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119744
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Gardeners Cottage and Attached Walls and Pavilions
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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
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- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chalfont St. Peter
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ0071989655
Details
TQ 08 NW
208/8/10027
CHALFRONT ST PETER
AMERSHAM ROAD
Gardener's cottage and attached walls and pavilions
II
Gardener's cottage with attached walls and pavilions. 1913, alterations mid- and late-C20. By Edwin Lutyens for Mrs Edgar. Cottage: red brick in stretcher bond; swept hipped roof of plain clay tiles; central brick stack with plinth and pilaster butresses to corners. Rectangular on plan, built around the large central chimney. One storey, 5 bays, having stepped tiles to eaves; knob finials to gutter brackets and 2-light windows with pegged wooden frames, leaded lights and metal casements. Entrance elevation has stone step up to central part-glazed door with glazing bars; two windows each side. Rear: re-positioned 2-panel door; some window alterations. Interior: 2-panel doors with brass door knobs; decorative window catches; parquet floors with tiles to former kitchen; moulded fireplaces with decorative metal grates and tile surrounds and hearths. Attached walls are of red brick in stretcher bond, alternate courses having 1 header for every 3 stretchers; stepped tile verge below triangular-section coping of plain clay tiles; bricked-up former entrances; some added sections. Pavilions at north-east and south-west corners each have a pyramidal roof. That at north-east is triangular on plan, facing on to the back-yard of the cottage and having a stone step up to a board door flanked by 1-light windows; wc inside. The south-west pavilion has received substantial mid-C20 alterations.
A good-quality Lutyens cottage and associated garden buildings. Edwin Lutyens : Architectural Monographs. Academy Editions Architectural Monographs. 1979, 1986. P98.
Listing NGR: TQ0071989655
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469267
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lutyens, E, Architectural Monographs 6, (1979), 98
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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