The Old Crown House and Isabel Cottage
ISABEL COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332110
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Crown House and Isabel Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ISABEL COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332110
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Crown House and Isabel Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ISABEL COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD CROWN HOUSE
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:
- ISABEL COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD CROWN HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hambleden
- National Grid Reference:
- SU7753790199
Details
SU 79 SE
3/130
HAMBLEDEN
SKIRMETT
The Old Crown House and Isabel Cottage
(formerly listed as Cottage (formerly Crown Inn) and Cottage adjoining former Crown Inn).
21.6.55
GV
II
Two houses. Originally C15-C16, altered C17 and later. Externally rebuilt
in flint and brick with dentil eaves, the front roughcast and whitewashed.
Old tile roof, central brick chimney with off-set top. One storey and
attic, 4 bays, the left bay a C19 extension. Left bays have C20 paired
barred wooden casements. Third bay has C20 bow window and paired leaded
casement above. All upper windows are in dormer gables. C20 board door
between left bays, with flat hood on wooden brackets. Early C19 gabled
extension projects infront of right bay. This is of whitewashed flint and
brick with narrow dentil eaves, and has C20 casements and glazed door in
left side. Other extensions to right. Interior: right bay has flanking
cruck trusses, the blades terminating above the collars, and heavy
longitudinal floor joists; stack with lintel dated 1618 is inserted between
main posts of central spere truss; spere posts have shaped jowls;
original purlins.
(RCHM I p. 188 Mon. 24).
Listing NGR: SU7753790199
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46780
- 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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