THE COTTAGE AT CHALFONT PARK

THE COTTAGE AT CHALFONT PARK, AMERSHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119745
Date first listed:: 13-May-1998
List Entry Name:: THE COTTAGE AT CHALFONT PARK
Statutory Address:: THE COTTAGE AT CHALFONT PARK, AMERSHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119745
Date first listed:: 13-May-1998
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-May-1998
List Entry Name:: THE COTTAGE AT CHALFONT PARK
Statutory Address 1:: THE COTTAGE AT CHALFONT PARK, AMERSHAM 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:: THE COTTAGE AT CHALFONT PARK, AMERSHAM ROAD

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chalfont St. Peter
National Grid Reference:: TQ 00754 89735

Details

TQ 08 NW CHALFRONT ST PETER AMERSHAM ROAD

208/8/10028 The Cottage at Chalfront Park

II

Estate Cottage. 1913, altered late C20. By Edwin Lutyens for Mrs Edgar. Red brick in stretcher bond, alternate courses having 1 header for every 3 stretchers. Swept hipped roof of plain clay tiles, former central chimney removed. T-plan, having entrance/stair-wing projecting on north side and outshut under catslide roof to rear right (originally with coal and log stores and wc). Plinth; plat band; stepped tiles to eaves; knob finials to gutter brackets; windows throughout have pegged wooden frames, leaded lights, metal casements, tile dripmoulds and those on ground floor are recessed under shouldered arches. North elevation: 2 storeys, 3 bays. At centre, stone step up to door of 2 fielded panels under corniced hood supported by large ashlar modillion brackets; 2-light window above entrance. 3-light windows to flanking bays. Right return of entrance wing has tall, doubletransomed, 2-light stair-window; left return has 2-light window to former pantry with decorative open-work grilles and wire mesh inside. Right return: a 4-light window to ground floor; 2-light window above. Left return similar, but with 3-light window below and inserted 2-light window to outshut. Rear: outshut has small light on right; inserted 2-light window to left; 2-light dormer with hipped roof; side-entrance with 2-panel door under deep moulded hood on large wooden S bracket and to its right the wooden board which formerly supported a pump. On left of outshut is a 2-light window with two more to 1st floor. Interior: 2-panel doors with brass door knobs; decorative window catches; moulded fireplace surround; wooden stair with diagonally-set balusters and plain hand-rail and newels. A good-quality smaller Lutyens house. Edwin Lutyens : Architectural Monographs. Academy Editions Architectural Monographs. 1979, 1986. P98.

Listing NGR: TQ0075489735

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Legacy System number:: 469268
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.