Howe Farmhouse

HOWE FARMHOUSE, SKIRMETT ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1160612
Date first listed:
03-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:
Howe Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HOWE FARMHOUSE, SKIRMETT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1160612
Date first listed:
03-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:
Howe Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HOWE FARMHOUSE, SKIRMETT 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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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:
HOWE FARMHOUSE, SKIRMETT ROAD

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 77519 88407

Details

SU 78 NE HAMBLEDEN SKIRMETT ROAD (off)

6/145 Howe Farmhouse

3.4.85 II

House. Circa 1700, altered. Brick front, once whitewashed; right side rendered and extended; rear flint with brick dressings; wide rusticated brick pilasters at corners. Hipped old tile roof, brick chimneys. Double pile. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. S. front has 3 bays, the left a C19 extension. Left bay has C20 French doors and sash above. Centre has 3-pane and single pane sashes to first floor, and half-glazed door with semi-circular fanlight, brick arch and arched wire porch. Right bay has external chimney pierced by C20 glazed door. Right side has single storey C20 projection, 2 3-pane sashes in moulded frames to first floor, and 2 flat-roofed dormers with paired barred wooden casements. C20 openings to rear. C20 extensions to left side.

Listing NGR: SU7751988407

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
46797
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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