Ferns Cottage

FERNS COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1125891
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:
Ferns Cottage
Statutory Address:
FERNS COTTAGE

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Date:
2001-05-24
Reference:
IOE01/04319/07
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© Mr David H. Fisher. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1125891
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:
Ferns Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
FERNS COTTAGE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FERNS COTTAGE

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

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Great and Little Hampden
National Grid Reference:
SP 83963 01797

Details

SP 80 SW GREAT AND LITTLE HAMPDEN GREAT HAMPDEN

5/32 Ferns Cottage

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- II

House. C17-early C18, partly rebuilt and extended C19. W bays to left have timber frame with rendered infill to rear, roughcast over timber framing in left gable, and front rebuilt in brick. C19 brick bay to right. Half-hipped thatch roof, rebuilt brick chimney between right bays, C20 brick chimney to right. 1½ storeys, 3 bays. Left bays have paired leaded casements, those to ground floor with altered cambered heads, those above in gabled eaves-line dormers with thatch swept round. Similar first floor window to right. Ground floor of right bay has single C20 light to left, and 3-light leaded casement with decoratively cambered brick head. C20 brick porch with half-hipped thatch roof between left bays has C20 door and flat wooden hood. Weatherboard shed to left. Old board door and leaded casements to rear. Interior has timber frame in partition between left bays.

Listing NGR: SP8396301797

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
46302
Legacy System:
LBS

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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