Shakespeare Farmhouse
SHAKESPEARE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1124272
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Shakespeare Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHAKESPEARE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1124272
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Shakespeare Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHAKESPEARE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- SHAKESPEARE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grendon Underwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 67846 20856
Details
SP 62 SE GRENDON UNDERWOOD HIGH STREET (south side)
1/88 Shakespeale Farmhouse
25.10.51
GV II*
House. Late C16 and C17 with some alterations. Tall cross wing to left has timber frame with diagonal braces and thin brick infill and plinth. Lower range to right has thin brick to ground floor and C18 chequer brick above. Old tile roofs. Crow-stepped gable and rebuilt chimney with 2 diagonal shafts to right. Main chimney between left bays is of thin brick with shafts grouped in cross pattern set diagonally on modillion base. 2 storeys, attic and cellar, 4 bays. Old leaded casements. Gabled bay to left has cross casements to main floors and oval window with paired casements to attic. Range to right has 4-light casements with transoms to ground floor outer bays, 3-light casements above and 4-light casement to centre of first floor. 3 hipped attic dormers with paired casements. Attic windows and central first floor window all have intermediate diamond mullions. Central board door with rectangular fanlight. Outshot to rear of right range, single storey C19 extension at right-angles to rear centre. Rear of left bay has 2-storey lean-to porch projection with C16-C17 board door in moulded frame. Interior: main stack has fireplaces of thin brick with 3-centred arches, that to ground floor left bay moulded and colourwashed, that above and to ground floor of second bay with chamfered arches; C16-C17 dog-leg staircase with moulded handrail, chamfered square newel posts with acorn finials and shaped splat balusters to upper flights; 2 moulded and stopped spine beams to ground floor of left bay, also a painted wall panel; stop-chamfered cross beams in ground floor room of second bay; some old glass and window catches. RCHM II p. 131 Mon.4.
Listing NGR: SP6784620856
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42469
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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