Shell House
SHELL HOUSE, VILLAGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1124399
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Shell House
- Statutory Address:
- SHELL HOUSE, VILLAGE LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14084/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1124399
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Shell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHELL HOUSE, VILLAGE LANE
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:
- SHELL HOUSE, VILLAGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hedgerley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU9701387667
Details
SU 98 NE
4/530
23.9.55
HEDGERLEY
VILLAGE LANE
Shell House
II*
Late C17. Brick, red stretchers, blue-grey headers; old tile-hipped roof.
Moulded brick string course at first floor level. Two storeys and attic. Road
elvation with one, side elevation with 2 dormers. Heavy timber eaves cornice
with wooden corbels. First floor with two 2-light casements with timber
mullions and transoms and leaded lights. Ground floor with one 2-light casement
and 2-fold 6-fielded panel door with rectangular fanlight at top of flight of
steps and framed by brick Ionic pilasters carrying a hood with carved consoles.
On left hand, one-storey modern addition in matching materials with shaped gable
end. Interior with old staircase and remains of C17 overmantel. RCHM I, p.192:
VCH III, p.278.
Listing NGR: SU9701387667
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44126
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908), 278
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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