The Heart in Hand

THE HEART IN HAND, CORES END ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1160066
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
The Heart in Hand
Statutory Address:
THE HEART IN HAND, CORES END ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1160066
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
The Heart in Hand
Statutory Address 1:
THE HEART IN HAND, CORES END 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.

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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:
THE HEART IN HAND, CORES END ROAD

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

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wooburn
National Grid Reference:
SU 90269 87427

Details

WOOBURN CORES END ROAD SU 98 NW 6/167 The Heart in Hand

- - II Public house. C17, altered C19 and C20, the right bay possibly C16- early C17. Timber framed with brick infill, the front rebuilt in whitewashed brick. Gabled cross wing to left has whitewashed roughcast with some half-timbering to front gable, and tile-hung rear gable. Main part has C20 tile roof, right bay has old tile roof. Later brick chimneys. L-plan, with cross wing at left end, lower bay to right and C20 rear extensions. Main part is of 2 storeys, right bay altered to single storey. 3½ bays in all, with half bay between centre bay and cross wing. Irregular C20 barred wooden casements, the centre bay with rectangular bay window. C20 door to right of cross wing; C20 projecting porch to right of centre bay. Tiled pent roof over ground floor openings. Interior reveals timber framing with straight diagonal bracing in main bays and slightly curved bracing in right bay. Chimney has probably been removed from half-bay. Stop-chamfered spine beam in centre bay.

Listing NGR: SU9026987427

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Legacy System number:
47050
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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