SARA'S COTTAGE AND THE OLD ORCHARD
SARA'S COTTAGE, THAME ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125843
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- SARA'S COTTAGE AND THE OLD ORCHARD
- Statutory Address:
- SARA'S COTTAGE, THAME ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125843
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- SARA'S COTTAGE AND THE OLD ORCHARD
- Statutory Address 1:
- SARA'S COTTAGE, THAME ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD ORCHARD, THAME 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:
- SARA'S COTTAGE, THAME ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD ORCHARD, THAME ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Longwick-cum-Ilmer
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7847205343
Details
SP 70 NE
1/118
21.6.55
LONGWICK-CUM-ILMER
THAME ROAD
Sara's Cottage and The Old Orchard (formerly listed as The Old Orchards)
II
Pair of cottages. C17, altered early-mid C18 and later. Left bay
has timber frame with whitewashed brick infill, partly herringbone.
Remainder rebuilt in whitewashed brick with some rendered timbering
to first floor of right bay. Tiled roof, rebuilt chimney of thin
brick between left bays, later brick chimney to right. 1½-2 storeys,
3 bays. Right bays have barred horizontal sliding sashes, those to
first floor in eaves-line dormers. Small paired wooden casement
below eaves between right bays. Left bay has paired wooden casement
to first floor right, and canted bay window, both with horizontal
wooden glazing bars. Board door to loft, half-glazed door between
left bays. Early C20 single storey half-timbered bay to left.
Interior has stop-chamfered spine beams.
RCHM I p.272 Mon. 25.
Listing NGR: SP7847205343
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46389
- 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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