The Bell House
THE BELL HOUSE, CROWBROOK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125821
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Bell House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BELL HOUSE, CROWBROOK ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125821
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Bell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BELL HOUSE, CROWBROOK ROAD
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:
- THE BELL HOUSE, CROWBROOK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Princes Risborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 81446 04897
Details
SP 8104 PRINCES RISBOROUGH CROWBROOK ROAD (ASKETT) 8/169 The Bell House
- 28.8.62 - II
House. C16 cross wing with hall range rebuilt early C17, and mid C18 extension to rear forming L-plan. C20 conservatory in rear angle. C16 and C17 bays are timber framed with brick and render infill, part of the ground floor and rear of hall rebuilt in brick. C18 part is of chequer brick with first floor band course and flint plinth. Old tile roofs, thin brick chimneys, that to cross wing with narrow pilaster. 2 storeys, with lower ground floor to C18 bay. Hall range to left is of 1½ bays with irregular barred wooden casements and large external chimney and timber lean-to at left end. Gabled cross wing to right has curved braces and first floor jettied to front with moulded bressumer on chamfered end brackets. 3-light barred wooden casements, that to first floor with C16 moulded sill on elaborately moulded central bracket. Ground floor also has single light to left and board door to right. Chimney to rear of bay with slight oven projection at right side. C18 extension to rear of cross wing has irregular barred wooden casements, one C17-C18 cross window, and lobby entry with flush panelled top-lit door. Interior: fireplace of thin brick with chamfered depressed arch to first floor of hall range; ground floor room of cross wing has stop-chamfered wooden fireplace lintel, and similar spine beam on moulded brackets and stop-chamfered posts; upper storey of cross wing has concealed arch-braced truss; old staircase in line with chimney of cross wing. RCHM I p.261 Mon.6.
Listing NGR: SP8144604897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46440
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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