FLINT BARN AT DOWNLEY FARM ON THE EAST SIDE OF FARMYARD

FLINT BARN AT DOWNLEY FARM ON THE EAST SIDE OF FARMYARD, PLOMER GREEN LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125619
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1990
List Entry Name:: FLINT BARN AT DOWNLEY FARM ON THE EAST SIDE OF FARMYARD
Statutory Address:: FLINT BARN AT DOWNLEY FARM ON THE EAST SIDE OF FARMYARD, PLOMER GREEN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125619
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1990
List Entry Name:: FLINT BARN AT DOWNLEY FARM ON THE EAST SIDE OF FARMYARD
Statutory Address 1:: FLINT BARN AT DOWNLEY FARM ON THE EAST SIDE OF FARMYARD, PLOMER GREEN 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FLINT BARN AT DOWNLEY FARM ON THE EAST SIDE OF FARMYARD, PLOMER GREEN LANE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Downley
National Grid Reference:: SU 84721 95281

Details

SU 89 NW WEST WYCOMBE RURAL PLOMER GREEN LANE (West Side, off) 1/220 Flint Barn at Downley Farm on the East Side of farmyard

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Barn. Probably late C18, with later addition, for the Dashwood Estate. Flint with brick bands, pilaster strips, quoins and quoined surrounds. Addition of weatherboard on brick plinth. Plain tile roof, half-hipped at north end. 5 bays with 2-way addition at south end. Central opposed cart-entries with board doors, that on east side in gabled, weatherboard, midstray; that on west (yard) side having stable door to left and wide blocked entrance on right. Two tiers of slit vents. West (yard) elevation of addition has stable door flanked by small-pane windows with 2 boarded-up openings above. Interior: from tile beams curved principal rafters rise to collars; 2 tiers of clasped through purlins; intermediate collars; old rafters; no ridge-piece; roof originally ½-hipped also at south end where the gable was of weatherboard with hatch below. Important building in the farmyard group, of which the farmhouse (qv West Wycombe Rural CP) is dated 1819.

Listing NGR: SU8472195281

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Legacy System number:: 46878
Legacy System:: LBS

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