Jerome Farmhouse Monks Corner
JEROME FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125597
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Jerome Farmhouse Monks Corner
- Statutory Address:
- JEROME FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01057/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125597
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Jerome Farmhouse Monks Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- JEROME FARMHOUSE
- Statutory Address 2:
- MONKS CORNER
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:
- JEROME FARMHOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- MONKS CORNER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Marlow
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 82398 86827
Details
GREAT MARLOW MARLOW COMMON SU 88 NW 4/44 Monks Corner and Jerome Cottage - - II Two houses, formerly house and service wing. Circa 1900. For Conrad Dressler, sculptor and producer of Medmenham Ware. Whitewashed brick with off-set string and dentil eaves, plain tile roof, brick chimneys. T-plan, the service wing across S.W. end. 2 storeys. Leaded casements. Main block has 3 3-light casements and 2 slit windows to ground floor and double doors with semi-circular leaded fanlight near right end. First floor has 4-light and 3-light casements, long frieze panel of painted terracotta with relief scenes of women at work, and 2 terracotta roundels with busts in Della Robbia style. At left end is a small corner pavilion, set at an angle, with pyramid roof, metal weathervane in form of a ship, and arched terracotta panel with female figure. Service wing to right has roundel in gable end, and unpainted terracotta frieze of laundry-women. All terracotta produced locally by Dressler, who also supplied panels for Westfield Cottages, Medmenham, and tiles for Danesfield estate buildings. House also noteable as home of Jerome K. Jerome, author of "Three Men in a Boat", c.1910-1920. Included for historic interest.
Listing NGR: SU8239886827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46928
- 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.
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