Well Cottage
42 AND 44, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288336
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Well Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 42 AND 44, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288336
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Well Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42 AND 44, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- WELL COTTAGE, 40, QUEEN CATHERINE 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:
- 42 AND 44, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WELL COTTAGE, 40, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Claydon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 70126 26918
Details
SP 72 NW STEEPLE CLAYDON QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD (north side)
4/120 Nos. 40 (Well Cottage) 42 and 44 - - II
Row of 3 cottages, formerly a pair. C16, altered. Timber frame exposed in left gable and rear wall, remainder encased in brick. No. 40 has chequered brickwork dated T. 1. 1753 in blue headers on right gable. Nos. 42-44 have late C19 rat-trap bond brickwork. Thatched roof, half-hipped; brick stacks to gables and centre. 1 1/2 storeys, first floor windows in thatch. No. 40, to right, has 2 bays of 3-light leaded casements with timber lintels, off- centre C20 door and outshot to rear. Nos. 42-44, together, have 2 bays of similar 3-light windows with cambered heads to ground floor, paired leaded casement to upper right and C19 door in metal porch to right. C20 flat-roofed extension to left with cruck truss exposed in remainder of original gable above. Another cruck truss between left-hand bays. Sill beam in rear wall, probably re-used, has carved date 1639.
RCHM II p.273 Mon 4.
Listing NGR: SP7012626918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399890
- 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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