THE FORRESTER'S COTTAGE

THE FORRESTER'S COTTAGE, SHEEPRIDGE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125632
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: THE FORRESTER'S COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: THE FORRESTER'S COTTAGE, SHEEPRIDGE LANE

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Date:: 1999-10-05
Reference:: IOE01/02096/16
Rights:: © Mr John R Powell. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125632
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: THE FORRESTER'S COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE FORRESTER'S COTTAGE, SHEEPRIDGE 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:: THE FORRESTER'S COTTAGE, SHEEPRIDGE LANE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Little Marlow
National Grid Reference:: SU 88311 89502

Details

CHEPPING WYCOMBE SHEEPRIDGE LANE SU 88 NE (SHEEPRIDGE) 5/20 The Forrester's Cottage - - II House. Early-mid C18, altered 1956. Timber frame with brick infill, the front with framing partly planked and infill renewed C20. Some flint in plinth. Second bay weatherboarded. Reroofed C20 with old plain tiles, formerly thatched. 2 chimneys. 1½ storeys, 5 bays. C20 2 and 3-light casements, the left bays with wooden glazing bars, remainder leaded. Upper windows are transomed with the upper lights in C20 gabled semi-dormers. C20 glazed door to right of centre, another in right end. C20 French doors in left end. Interior: fourth bay has stop-chamfered spine beam and joists with narrow run-out chamfers; heavy truss with raking queen posts to right of centre, other trusses with queen struts; some wind-braces; marble fireplace of c.1832, formerly in Park Street, Windsor, is re-sited in ground floor left room. House was formerly an L-plan block of cottages, the left wing demolished 1950s.

Listing NGR: SU8831189502

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Legacy System number:: 46904
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.