THE VACHE

THE VACHE, VACHE LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1161651
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1958
List Entry Name:: THE VACHE
Statutory Address:: THE VACHE, VACHE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1161651
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1958
List Entry Name:: THE VACHE
Statutory Address 1:: THE VACHE, VACHE LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE VACHE, VACHE LANE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chalfont St. Giles
National Grid Reference:: SU 99637 94495

Details

CHALFONT-ST-GILES VACHE LANE SU 99 SE

2/65 The Vache 22.12.58 II*

House, now National Coal Board Staff College. Probably C15 or early C16, late C16, late C17, C18, C19, late C19 and early C20; alterations and extensions 1955 and subsequently. Brick with some exposed timber framing; roofs mostly of plain tiles, with some slate; brick stacks with multiple diagonally-set flues. Infilled courtyard plan, the earliest part being the southern part of the east wing, this extended slightly to the north probably late C16; west wing is probably late C16; the north range late C17; the south range early-mid C18; courtyard infilled late C19; additions to west 1955. 2 storeys with attic. Windows mostly late C19, stone-mullioned. Old rain water heads with C19 dates. North front: 5, 3 bays. Some C17 brickwork. Ends of east and west ranges projecting and gabled with 2-storey canted bay windows. Two-storey gabled central porch. Hipped dormers. East front: 6 bays with exposed timber framing (mostly of tight-scantling); plinth; truncated external stack between left bays; and broad, probably C17, external stack between right bays having 2 Tudor-arched niches at base and tripled flues. South front: C18, 5 bays, end bays projecting slightly, gabled, and with Venetian windows. Central entry with pedimented doorcase. Architraved windows, cornices over those on ground floor. Moulded eaves cornice; parapet. West front: some C16 brickwork including central projection with embattled parapet with roll-moulded embrasures and merlons, later heightened. Interior: mostly last C19/early C20 with fine galleried central hall, top-lit, and panelled; panelled entrance hall and drawing room. Some reused panelling in Music Room. Earlier features which survive include C17 moulded stone fireplaces in east range on ground and first floors; C18 panelling in south range room'to east of entrance, and to room above; some timber-framing in west range, and in east range at north end of earliest (east) range which includes a large-scantling post and curved brace and beside it a wide entrance with hollow-moulded 4-centred-arched surround; late C17 stair to north range at west end, with original turned balusters to attic flight. Of particular note are the roofs above the east and west wings. The former has a 3-bay crown-post roof, the northern bay shorter; the crown-posts are of large scantling, square on plan, with stop-chamfered arises, and chamfered arch braces up to the chamfered collar purlin; close-set collared rafters. The next 2 bays (to north) have a king-post truss with curved struts, the king-post having hollow-chamfered arises with half-pyramidal stops. The roof over the west range has trusses with curved struts, some originally with an upright post; collars; trenched purlins; chamfered arched wind-braces. RCHM I, 82, Monument 4.

Listing NGR: SU9963794495

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Legacy System:: LBS

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.