BURY FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AT WEST END

BURY FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AT WEST END, LONDON ROAD WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274493
Date first listed:: 17-May-1984
List Entry Name:: BURY FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AT WEST END
Statutory Address:: BURY FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AT WEST END, LONDON ROAD WEST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274493
Date first listed:: 17-May-1984
List Entry Name:: BURY FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AT WEST END
Statutory Address 1:: BURY FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AT WEST END, LONDON ROAD WEST

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BURY FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AT WEST END, LONDON ROAD WEST

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Amersham
National Grid Reference:: SU 96098 97162

Details

1. AMERSHAM LONDON ROAD WEST 5134 (south side)

Bury Farmhouse with attached boundary wall at west end

SU 9697 8/131

II GV

2. C16 altered C18 early C19 and later: Originally timber framed: one corner post still visible on left of rear elevation. Red brick rear and flank walls, front elevation roughcast painted. Old tiles to rear roofslope, Welsh slate to front, raised early C19. Plain brick chimney stack. Two storeys. Front elevation has four 3-light leaded casements to first floor, two similar 4-light casements at each end on ground floor, 6 panel door in trellis porch on left of centre, 2-light leaded casement to right and tripartite sash window on right of centre. Irregular rear elevation with central gable, projecting gabled wing on left, and 1-storey projection on left, casement and sash windows and various C19 doors. Internally the back door leads to a fine moulded wood 'Tudor' archway having curved spandrels and chamfer stops. Historic interest as home of Mary Penington, visited here by William Penn who married her daughter Gulielma Springett. High flint and brick boundary wall attached at west end on corner of Gore Hill, with 1-storey gabled out-building, also attached.

(RCHM I pll MON 60).

Listing NGR: SU9609897162

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Legacy System number:: 415141
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.