The Cottage
THE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159839
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2001-11-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/05099/27
- Rights:
- © Mr Barry F. White. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159839
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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.
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 COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hambleden
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 79497 90232
Details
SU 79 SE HAMBLEDEN FRIETH
3/71 The Cottage
II
House. Rear bay probably C16, with C17 bay to front and C19 extension to left. C17 bay has timber frame with herringbone brick infill exposed to first floor front, the ground floor and right gable rebuilt in flint and brick. More timber framing in rear wing. C19 bay is of brick, roughcast to front and left side. Old tile roofs, brick chimneys between older bays and to left. L-plan with small C20 extension in rear angle. 2-storey front range, lower rear bay of one storey and an attic. 2 bays to front, the left gabled. Left bay has paired wooden casements, 2 to ground floor, one to first floor, and blind flint roundel with keyed brick surround in gable. Right bay also has wooden casements, 3-light to ground floor, 2-light with glazing bars above. Rear bay has door, casement and small gabled dormer. Interior: timber framing survives in internal walls, the front bay with heavy diagonal wall braces; winder stair in line with fireplace to rear of C17 bays rear bay has arched wind-braces and was possibly once an open hall. RCHM I p. 188 Mon. 29.
Listing NGR: SU7949790232
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46721
- 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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