Priory Farmhouse
PRIORY FARMHOUSE, TOWNSEND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214669
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, TOWNSEND
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11566/22
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214669
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, TOWNSEND
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:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, TOWNSEND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marsh Gibbon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 64243 22728
Details
SP 6422 MARSH GIBBON TOWNSEND (south side)
9/66 Priory Farmhouse (formerly listed as The Priory) 25.9.51
GV II
House, C18 refronting of older building. Irregular vitreous brick with red dressings, plinth, first floor band course and moulded brick eaves. Old tile roof, brick coped gables, flanking brick chimneys, that to right with 2 square shafts set diagonally. T-plan. 2 storeys and attic, 5 bays. Marginally glazed sash windows, those to ground floor with cambered brick heads. 2 hipped dormers with C19 wooden casements. Central C19 half- glazed door with rectangular fanlight and flat hood on cut brackets. Lower extension to left has C19 casement, hayloft door in gabled semi-dormer above, and blocked dovecote in gable.
RCHM II p. 192-3 Mon. 19.
Listing NGR: SP6424322728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399563
- 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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