BOCKMER HOUSE

BOCKMER HOUSE, BOCKMER LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125583
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:: BOCKMER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BOCKMER HOUSE, BOCKMER LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125583
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: BOCKMER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BOCKMER HOUSE, BOCKMER 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BOCKMER HOUSE, BOCKMER LANE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Medmenham
National Grid Reference:: SU 80714 86125

Details

MEDMENHAM BOCKMER LANE SU 88 NW 4/107 Bockmer House (formerly listed as Bockmer with garden walls) 21.6.55 GV II House. Probably C17, altered late C18-C19 and C20, with much rebuilt C16-C17 N. wing. May incorporate materials of early C16 house. Main block is of flint with narrow brick dressings, hipped old tile roof, and brick chimneys. Double pile. 2 storeys, 3 bays. W. front has flush band of narrow brick at first floor sill level, and off-set eaves. 3-light leaded casements, renewed C20, those to ground floor with cambered heads. Central flush-panelled door in wooden architrave frame with C20 half-timbered gabled porch. Small curved projection to left probably once an oven. Altered flint and brick wing with C20 plastic casements links main block with gabled projecting cross wing to left. This has some traces of timbering but has been much rebuilt in brick and part altered to garages. Car-port with gabled roof projects infront. E. front has moulded wooden eaves, and 3 cross windows with gauged brick heads and C20 leaded glazing to first floor. Ground floor has 2 C20 semi-octagonal bay windows with leaded lights, and central 6-panelled door with leaded rectangular fanlight and elaborate wooden doorcase. Doorcase is probably C20 and has pilasters with carved floral ornament, strapwork architrave, pulvinated frieze carved with fruit and flowers, and tiled hood. Garden wall projects to right, of flint, brick and chalk, with renewed off-set brick coping. S. front rebuilt C18- early C19 in chequer brick with altered C20 fenestration. Interior: 2 ground floor rooms at S. end have re-used C16-C17 panelling, the S.E, room also with heraldic shield of Samuel Backhouse above the fireplace. Bockmer is documented as the home of Henry Pole, Lord Montagu, close relative of Cardinal Pole, in 1538. It was subsequently the home of the Borlase family. (VCH. III. A.H. Plaisted, The manor and Parish Records of Medmenham,1925)

Listing NGR: SU8071486125

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Legacy System number:: 46991
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.