Baylins Farmhouse

BAYLINS FARMHOUSE, PENN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1124947
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:
Baylins Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BAYLINS FARMHOUSE, PENN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1124947
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:
Baylins Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BAYLINS FARMHOUSE, PENN ROAD

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BAYLINS FARMHOUSE, PENN ROAD

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

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Penn
National Grid Reference:
SU 92977 92438

Details

PENN PENN ROAD 1. 5134 (west side) Knotty Green Baylins Farmhouse SU 99 SW 3/56

II GV 2. Late medieval hall house with later alterations. Two storeys timber frame, brick and tile hanging. South elevation: gabled wing on right, upper part tile hung, one 3-light casement. Left hand part brick, timber arched door next to wing leading to passage: 4-light casement to ground floor, two 3-light casements in first floor. Addition on far right, 2 storeys and hipped roof (designed by Sir Edward Maufe, 1925). Loggia addition on left by Forbes and Tate, 1919. Eastern elevation of wing has exposed timber framing. North-east block added, and cart shed adapted to present north-west wing by Forbes and Tate. Old tile roof, brick stacks. Interior has original arch braced hall truss and curved wind braces visible on first floor. C16-C17 panelling in dining room and moulded inserted. C16 floor beams in living room. These have stencilled decorations by Macdonald Gill, early C20. This house was the home of Ambrose Heal, for whom it was carefully adapted by Forbes and Tate (Small Country Houses of Today Vol 3 by Sir Lawrence Weaver, Country Life 1925). (RCHM I 268-269 Monument 12).

Listing NGR: SU9297792438

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
44552
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 3, (1925), 1925

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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