Dovecote Farmhouse
DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, 26, HIGH STREET SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214091
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, 26, HIGH STREET SOUTH
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214091
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Dovecote Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, 26, HIGH STREET SOUTH
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:
- DOVECOTE FARMHOUSE, 26, HIGH STREET SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stewkley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 85204 25852
Details
SP 82 NE STEWKLEY HIGH STREET SOUTH (west side)
4/114 No. 26 (Dovecote Farmhouse) 19.8.59
- II
House. Late C16 range to N., parallel range to S. altered and mostly rebuilt late C19. N, range has timber frame with close studding and herringbone brick infill. First floor is jettied with dragon beam to N.E. corner on arched brace on moulded capital. Old tile roof, gabled to street, C19 brick chimney to far gable. 2 storeys, 1½ bays. Gable to street has late C19-C20 leaded windows, a 3-light casement to ground floor, and canted oriel above. N. side has 3-light leaded casements to left, similar 2-light to right. C19 lean-to with board door to right, and timber framing of S. range showing above. S. range is mainly of red brick with some half-timbering in E. gable. Tiled roof. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Gable to street has 3-light leaded casements and small window to right. S. front has 2 small gables, barred wooden casements, and central door in timber gabled porch.
RCHM II p. 277 Mon. 6,
Listing NGR: SP8520425852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398829
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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