Warwick Farmhouse
WARWICK FARMHOUSE, 31, BICESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1213243
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Warwick Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WARWICK FARMHOUSE, 31, BICESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1213243
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Warwick Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WARWICK FARMHOUSE, 31, BICESTER 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.
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:
- WARWICK FARMHOUSE, 31, BICESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Crendon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 69189 08844
Details
LONG CRENDON
972/2/12 BICESTER ROAD
19-JUN-81 (Southwest side)
31
Warwick Farmhouse
II*
Former farmhouse. Hall house, probably C15, inserted stack later C16, floor later C16 or early C17, extended early C17, altered and encased C18 and C19. Timber framed, clad in limestone rubble, thatched roof. Three bays, with two-bay hall and probable solar bay to north-east, extended by one bay to south-west, early C17. One and a half and two storeys. Southern bay, part exposed box framing, set back from main building line. Opposing doorways to former passage, in late C18 openings, boarded door to north, part glazed door to south. Timber casements, mostly C20, of two and three lights, but in C18 and C19 chamfered openings. Two axial stacks, that to south C17, central stack being late C16 and C19; internal stack to roadside gable. Former solar bay, ground floor, early C20 tiled grate. Flanking alcove cupboards, C18 and later. Upper bay of hall, stop- chamfered bressumer, longitudinal beam with lamb's tongue chamfer stops. C19 basket grate and timber surround. Lower bay, stairs set transversely across passage. C17 bay to south, with stack inserted into third bay. Upper floor robust rough hewn cruck truss between first and second bays, with short king post, carrying trenched purlins; possible former window opening on south elevation. Second and third bay arched braced collar truss with clasped purlins. Third bay formerly half hipped with evidence of former louvre. Fourth bay exposed box framing with angle braces. Two- bay smoke blackened hall roof, with probably C15 smoke blackened thatch retaining remarkable survival of plant species, including dethorned blackberry stem ties; unblackened medieval basal thatch to remainder of original building.
One of the most important thatched roofs in England (John Letts), one of only c200 buildings in England with original base coat of medieval thatch.
U.K. Smoke Blackened Thatch Register, John Letts, Dept. Agricultural Botany, University of Reading.
Smoke Blackened Thatch, John Letts, English Heritage, 1999
Warwick Farm, V. A. G. 1995
Listing NGR: SP6918908844
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397793
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Letts, J, Smoke Blackened Thatch a unique source of late medieval plant remains from southern England, (2000)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Warwick Farm, (1995)
Letts, J, UK Smoke Blackened Thatch Register in UK Smoke Blackened Thatch Register, ()
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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