Zennar

ZENNAR, THE GARDENS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1232833
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Zennar
Statutory Address:
ZENNAR, THE GARDENS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1232833
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Zennar
Statutory Address 1:
ZENNAR, THE GARDENS

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

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:
ZENNAR, THE GARDENS

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

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Adstock
National Grid Reference:
SP 73822 30273

Details

SP 7330 10/122

ADSTOCK
THE GARDENS (east side)

Zennar
(Formerly listed as Zennor)

II

Shown on OS Map as The Bungalow. Cottage. C17 with mid C19 alterations. C17 rear
wall of rendered cob on stone plinth; other walls rebuilt in mid C19 colourwashed
brick; gabled thatch roof. 3-unit plan: the C17 house had a hall to the left of
a lofted inner room. One storey; 3-window range. Mid C19 plank door set in beaded
wood frame to centre. Two and 3-light casements with glazing bars, probably mid/late
C19. Mid C19 one-storey, one-bay service extension to left, of colourwashed brick
with gabled plain tile roof. Rear of cottage has small mid C19 one-light window
set in pegged frame and a mid/late C19 one-light window with glazing bars. Interior:
C19 partition to right of door has lower part of raised cruck to front, which is
not fully visible above; to right of this is another C19 partition set under a low
tie beam. Two bays to right have exposed through purlins and simple A-frame roof
construction above, with some old thatching spars and rafters made from branches.
The C17 fireplace could have been some form of smoke hood. A rare and interesting
survival of a one-storey peasant house, probably representing the survival of a
squatters house built on the edge of common land.

Listing NGR: SP7382230273

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
408227
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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