Summers Cottage
SUMMERS COTTAGE, FORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311294
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Summers Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERS COTTAGE, FORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311294
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Summers Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERS COTTAGE, FORD 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:
- SUMMERS COTTAGE, FORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dinton-with-Ford and Upton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 76742 11014
Details
SP 71 SE DINTON-WITH-FORD AND FORD ROAD, Dinton UPTON (east side)
3/123 Summers Cottage (formerly listed as 'The Summers') 25.10.51
GV II
House. C16 and C17. Formerly part of one house, but with break in middle. Summers Cottage in north crosswing and Gable Cottage (q.v.) in south crosswing. Timber framed with brick infill on rubblestone plinth. Rubblestone rear wing. Old tile roof. 2 storeys plus attic. Crosswing gable to road, short bay at right remains of centre range. 2 mullioned and transomed casements to gabled front with 2-light casement to attic. Scalloped bargeboards and finial. Right bay set back with 6-panel door under lean-to open porch. South elevation rebuilt in brick circa 1980. Rear wing has to south elevation 2- light chamfered stone framed and mullioned window, door to left. 3-light leaded first floor window. Brick dressed east gable elevation casements. North elevation has remains of first floor oriels with moulded brackets. 2 diagonal brick flues to centred crosswing with corniced caps. Interior. Ground floor front room has moulded stone arched fireplace with moulded stops and 4-centred arch. Moulded spine and cross beam, the cross beam narrower. Much exposed framing, chamfered and stopped spine beams. Staircase in short right bay which has evidence of jettying and cut brackets to support bressumer. RCHM.I. 127. MON.9 (PART).
Listing NGR: SP7674211014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 43060
- 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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