HADDON COTTAGE THE OLD DEANERY

HADDON COTTAGE, 1, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Mid-C17 four-bay house, later extended and subdivided into three cottages (now two properties). Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212562
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:: HADDON COTTAGE THE OLD DEANERY
Statutory Address:: HADDON COTTAGE, 1, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212562
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Sep-2008
List Entry Name:: HADDON COTTAGE THE OLD DEANERY
Statutory Address 1:: HADDON COTTAGE, 1, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: THE OLD DEANERY, 3, HIGH STREET

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:: HADDON COTTAGE, 1, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: THE OLD DEANERY, 3, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lavendon
National Grid Reference:: SP 91663 53664

Details

LAVENDON 03-NOV-77 (East side) 1 Haddon Cottage HIGH STREET (East side) 3 The Old Deanery (Formerly listed as: HIGH STREET 1 HADDON COTTAGE) (Formerly listed as: HIGH STREET 3 & 5) (Formerly listed as: HIGH STREET 1 Haddon Cottage) (Formerly listed as: HIGH STREET 3 & 5 The Old Deanery) Mid-C17 four-bay house, later extended and * A relatively well-preserved example of * It has group value with nearby C17 and

90/2/49 HIGH STREET

GV II subdivided into three cottages (now two properties).

MATERIALS: Limestone rubble, with brick chimneys and one C20 first-floor extension to rear, thatched roof.

PLAN: Four bays with principal stack in bay 2 against former cross-passage; rear extensions off both ends. Originally a single property, later subdivided into three cottages; now two properties.

EXTERIOR: Standing parallel with, and set only slightly back from the High Street frontage, the cottages stand opposite the east end of St Michael's, Lavendon's medieval parish church (listed Grade I). No. 1 High Street comprises the single left-hand bay (seen from the front), No. 3 the remainder of the building. The building is of local rubble limestone, roughly coursed, and is of four bays and two storeys. The roof is thatched, with brick chimney stacks rising on the ridge line at either end and also slightly left of centre. There is now one door to the front (in bay 2), giving access to No. 3 High Street via a former cross passage (the far end blocked but former door legible in exterior fabric and shown in mid-C20 photograph); the fabric reveals no evidence of any other front door. No. 1 is now accessed from the rear, although there is a blocked C19 door in the side elevation. Windows to the front are three-light casements, other than above the door where there is a small two-light one and those of No. 1 which have recently been replaced. To the rear there are multi-phase extensions, principally two-storey, stone and thatched, to either end of the building (the exception being a mid-C20 brick first floor to part of the rear extension to No. 1, which is not of interest). The two outside corners to the principal extensions at either end (perhaps C18) both have slightly rounded corners (almost certainly original features) with decorative head-stones to them, to give easier access to the rear for vehicles. The extensions have multiple blocked former openings, suggesting a complex structural history which the modern interior finishes largely conceal.

INTERIOR: Internally the main range parallel with the road has three rooms in-line (bays 1, 3, and 4) with a chimney-cross passage comprising bay 2. The chimney's large open fireplace heats the former parlour (bay 3). Bay 1 (the modern No. 1 High Street) has an inserted fireplace against its gable wall, and an inserted stair (C20) in the single front room. There is also an inserted corner fireplace which previously heated No. 5 High Street. The first-floor of No. 3 is reached via a staircase in the first phase of its rear extension. Internally there is very little early fabric other than three crude plank doors upstairs in No. 3.

HISTORY: It is reported that there is map evidence to indicate the house was present by, or built in, 1654, and our inspection would seem to confirm a C17 date for the building's construction. In 1979, as for long previously, the building comprised three separate cottages, Nos. 1, 3 and 5 High Street. In that year the centre and right-hand properties (Nos. 3 and 5) were brought together as a single house (now No. 3), and that remains the case today (2007).

SOURCES: R. Brunskill, Traditional Buildings of Britain (1992 edn), 48-53.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: Nos. 1 and 3 High Street, Lavendon, are designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: a local C17 house type, whose fabric tells of its later history as three cottages. C18 listed buildings on the High Street and the listed medieval church.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 397065
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brunskill, R W, Traditional Buildings of Britain, (1992)
Brunskill, R W, Houses, (1982), 48-53

Legal

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