Cowley Farmhouse
COWLEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214802
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Cowley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COWLEY FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214802
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Cowley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWLEY FARMHOUSE
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:
- COWLEY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Preston Bissett
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 66399 28159
Details
SP 62 NE PRESTON BISSETT COWLEY
3/90 Cowley Farmhouse
25.9.51
- II
House. Late C17 altered. Timber frame now covered with planking in rear gable wall, remainder brick with dentilled eaves. Old tile roof, central chimney stack of thin brick has 2 rectangular shafts with pilasters to sides and off-set head. T-plan. 2 storeys and attic. S.E. front has gabled cross wing projecting to left. Gable wall has some stone quoins to base at right, C19 3-light casement with cambered brick head to first floor, matching C20 casement with flat head to ground floor, and 2-light casement to attic with Phoenix fire insurance plaque below. Centre has lean-to in line with chimney. Right-hand bay has C19 3-light casements, the upper partly in the roof, and half-glazed door in wire porch to right. Lean-to garage to right. S.W. front has similar casements and 6-panelled door with rectangular barred fanlight and flat wooden hood on cut brackets. Some leaded casements to rear.
Listing NGR: SP6639928159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399696
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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