Dove House
DOVE HOUSE, BISHOPSTONE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203937
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Dove House
- Statutory Address:
- DOVE HOUSE, BISHOPSTONE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203937
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dove House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVE HOUSE, BISHOPSTONE
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:
- DOVE HOUSE, BISHOPSTONE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 80632 10051
Details
SP 81 SW STONE BISHOPSTONE south west side
4/157 Dove House (formerly listed as Doves Close) 25.10.51 II
House, C16/C17, possibly incorporating earlier stonework, timber framed with C17 and C18 brick infill and refacing to north elevation. Old tile roofs, old chimney in centre of north wing, large projecting stack with stone base to gable on west elevation. Dormer windows all added 1970's. 2-storeys and attic, brick bands to north east gable. North elevation has 3 bays of 3-light leaded casements, mostly of 1970's date the central ground floor one replacing door to original entrance lobby in front of stack. East elevation has timber framed gable to LH with 3-light attic window, renewed oriel window to 1st floor with original bracket beneath carved with initials and date 1601. Flanking 2-light windows with higher cills. Similar window, all renewed, to RH bay. Half glazed door to ground floor, 3-light leaded casement each side. North east gable projects to RH and has 2-light attic casement, 3-light casement to 1st and ground floor, all with segmental arched heads. South gable is timber framed above ground floor and has 2-light attic casement, 3-light 1st and ground floor casements. West elevation has rubble stone ground floor, timber frame and brick above, tiled over projection in angle of chimney stack and south bay. West gable of north wing is timber framed. Single storey wing at north west, added in 1970's, brick with old tiled roof. Interior Exposed framing, chamfered ceiling beam and 2 inglenooks. RCHM I p.293. MON.5.
Listing NGR: SP8063210051
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42727
- 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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