Number 2 Ivy Cottage and Number 4

4, MURSLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1214163
Date first listed:
17-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Number 2 Ivy Cottage and Number 4
Statutory Address:
4, MURSLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1214163
Date first listed:
17-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Number 2 Ivy Cottage and Number 4
Statutory Address 1:
4, MURSLEY ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
IVY COTTAGE, 2, MURSLEY ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
4, MURSLEY ROAD
Statutory Address:
IVY COTTAGE, 2, MURSLEY ROAD

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

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Swanbourne
National Grid Reference:
SP8018827245

Details

SP 8027
8/129

SWANBOURNE
MURSLEY ROAD
(south side)

No. 2 (Ivy Cottage) and No. 4

GV
II

Pair of cottages. C17, partly rebuilt C19, Timber frame with
plaster, whitewashed brick and C19 brick infill, Old tile roof, half-
hipped to right, central chimney of thin brick with 3 square shafts set
diagonally. L-plan. One storey and attic, 2 bays to front, that to
left gabled. Leaded casements. Left bay has 3-light casement to
ground floor and 4-light canted oriel with tiled roof to attic.
Right-hand bay has 3-light casements to right and in gabled dormer.
Lean-to projection to left of right bay has similar casement and hipped
roof over open porch to right. Half-glazed door. Left side has 2
doors in trellis porches and single storey half-timbered extension to
far end.

RCHM II p. 289 Mon. 3.

Listing NGR: SP8018827245

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
398916
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.

Ordnance survey map of Number 2 Ivy Cottage and Number 4

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