Duffields
DUFFIELDS, FERRY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332148
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Duffields
- Statutory Address:
- DUFFIELDS, FERRY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332148
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Duffields
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUFFIELDS, FERRY LANE
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:
- DUFFIELDS, FERRY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Medmenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 80539 84206
Details
MEDMENHAM FERRY LANE SU 88 SW (west side) Duffields 8/114 - - II House. Late C17-early C18 cottage, extended c.1900-1905 by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Cottage has timber frame of slight scantling with straight angle braces to front and curved braces to gables. Thin brick infill to front and left gable, rendered infill to right gable and rear. Old tile roof, brick chimney to right. One storey and attic, 2 bays. Left bay has paired wooden casements, the upper window in gabled eaves-line dormer; right bay blind. Half-timbered single storey extension to right. Entry via c.1900 extension to rear left. This extension is a large L-plan building with red brick ground floor, tile-hung upper storey and plain-tile roof. 2 storeys, gabled projection to left. Leaded casements, central panelled door with moulded and shaped cornice hood on Doric half-columns. Extension built as village institute as gift of Mr. H.E. Kearley of Wittington. (A.H. Plaisted, The Romance of a Chiltern Village, 1958, p.164)
Listing NGR: SU8053984206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46998
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Plaisted, A H, The Romance of a Chiltern Village, (1958), 164
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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