NORTH DEAN HOUSE THE DOWER HOUSE

NORTH DEAN HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125748
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:: NORTH DEAN HOUSE THE DOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: NORTH DEAN HOUSE

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/03496/07
Rights:: © Mrs Margaret I.G. Dixon. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125748
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:: NORTH DEAN HOUSE THE DOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH DEAN HOUSE
Statutory Address 2:: THE DOWER HOUSE

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:: NORTH DEAN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE DOWER HOUSE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hughenden
National Grid Reference:: SU 85457 98172

Details

HUGHENDEN LOWER NORTH DEAN SU 89 NE

4/100 North Dean House and The Dower House 21.6.55

- II

Two houses, formerly house and service wing. Left range is possibly mid-late C18, altered mid C19; front range remodelled early C20 in mid C18 style; right end and service wing to rear added c.1920. Left side rendered and colourwashed, remainder brick; hipped old tile roofs, brick chimneys. 2 storeys and attic. Front is of narrow red and vitreous brick with moulded eaves. Quoins and pilaster strips flanking door have one course of projecting rounded brick in every 4. Cogged brick over central first floor window. 7 bays of boxed sashes with segmental heads; 3 hipped dormers with paired leaded casements; central 2-panel door with flat wooden hood on scroll brackets. 1920s extension in matching style to right has semi-circular projection with 3 bays of sash windows. Right side has 3-bay centre-piece with shaped parapet and cluster of 3 complex chimney shafts. Left side has first floor band course and 5 bays of 3-pane sashes. Centre bay has 2-storey gabled projecting porch with Tudor hoodmoulds over upper sash and glazed door. Interior has fake timber framing and fireplaces and staircase in Elizabethan style.

Listing NGR: SU8545798172

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Legacy System number:: 46580
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.