PENFOLD COTTAGE

PENFOLD COTTAGE, PENFOLD LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1124922
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: PENFOLD COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: PENFOLD COTTAGE, PENFOLD LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1124922
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: PENFOLD COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: PENFOLD COTTAGE, PENFOLD LANE

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:: PENFOLD COTTAGE, PENFOLD LANE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Little Missenden
National Grid Reference:: SU 90852 97560

Details

The following buildings shall be added:

LITTLE MISSENDEN PENFOLD LANE SU 99 NW (north side) Holmer Green 3/39 Penfold Cottage II

House. Probably late C15, altered C16, late C16 or early C17, C18 and subse- quently. Parts of original timber-framing survive inside; exterior of red brick with some blue headers in Flemish bond, the right return of earlier, thin, orangey brick in irregular English bond. Plain tile roofs. Probable development was from an open-hall house with 2-bay solar cross-wing on right; smoke bay added at right end of hall C16; chimney built inside smoke bay, the right-hand wall rebuilt, and a floor inserted, late C16 or early C17; front and left-hand walls rebuilt in brick probably late C18; additions to rear and other alterations 1926, further additions and alterations late C20. Garden elevation: 1½ storeys, 2 bays. Late C20 glazed door to left of centre with small light to right, flanked by 1926 bay windows with leaded casements, all under continuous hipped pent roof. Above are two 3-light leaded windows under gablets, that on left an old window but the gablet rebuilt. Roof hipped at left end. Brick ridge stack near right end; rebuilt brick stack at left end. Late C20 lean-to addition on left not of special interest. Right return: front range has exposed timber wall plate and collar; 1926 French window on right and leaded casement above; C20 added rear range not of special interest. Interior: exposed framing. On ground floor, large-scantling chamfered cross- beam in left room, and spine beam with lambs tongue stops in right room; chamfered joists, those in left room with flat stops, those in right room with stepped cyma stops; in right room, large brick fireplace with timber bressumer, which at left end carries a corbel with incised lozenge and moulded capital. On 1st floor, joint in wall plate at right end indicates probable addition of smoke bay; blackened timbers; old rafters. Former cross-wing has a collared queen-post roof truss, through purlins, and old rafters.

Listing NGR: SU9085297560

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 44595
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.