The Wilderness
THE WILDERNESS, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233921
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Wilderness
- Statutory Address:
- THE WILDERNESS, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233921
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Wilderness
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WILDERNESS, MAIN ROAD
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:
- THE WILDERNESS, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Upper Winchendon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 74749 14536
Details
SP 71 SW UPPER WINDHCENDON MAIN ROAD north side
2/367 The Wilderness (formerly listed as The Manor House (The wilderness 25.10.51
- II
House, formerly the kitchen and offices of a much larger house built c1700 by the First Marquess of Wharton and largely demolished by 2nd Duke of Marlborough in Mid C18. C17 parts, mainly c1700 altered. Brick on rubblestone plinthes. Old tile roof. South wing rubblestone. 2 storeys plus dormers and 6 bays. Northeast front has French doors to right bay. Left bay gabled with blocked carriage arch with rubbed brick basket arch having keystone and impost stones. Band course steps over arch and gable band steps over sash above. 4 ground floor sashes, 6 first floor sashes. 2 hipped 2-light dormers. 5 stacks with offset heads. South wing has 2-light ground floor casement and further bay, also in rubblestone, with casement and dormer facing south west. North gable modern brick with 2 sashes. South west front has mainly modern sashes and 4 window wide central projecting modern block with hipped roof and reused 6 panel door with panelled reveals and cut bracket cornice hood on north west side. Main house has two 2-light hipped dormers. C17 stack in angle between house and south bays has stone lower part and brick upper. RCHM I. 300. MON.2.
Listing NGR: SP7474914536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409520
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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