Westbury Farmhouse

Westbury Farmhouse, Foxcovert Road, Shenley Wood, MK5 6AA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1332324
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: Westbury Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Westbury Farmhouse, Foxcovert Road, Shenley Wood, MK5 6AA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1332324
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: Westbury Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Westbury Farmhouse, Foxcovert Road, Shenley Wood, MK5 6AA

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

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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:: Westbury Farmhouse, Foxcovert Road, Shenley Wood, MK5 6AA

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

District:: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shenley Church End
National Grid Reference:: SP 82570 35610

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 January 2025 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

SP 83 NW 3/98

SHENLEY BROOK END FOXCOVERT ROAD Westbury Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as WHADDON ROAD north side)

4.6.52

II

House. C16 or early C17 largely rebuilt 1670, with later alterations. Timber framed with brick infill to East wall of South wing; otherwise brick. Tiled roofs, brick East gable parapet and kneelers; large chimney stack to centre of main block with modillion capping and four rebuilt diagonal shafts. Similar stack with two shafts to South West side of South wing, catslide roof to South West Latter L plan, two storeys and attic, main block has first floor string and moulded cornice carried round East gable and string. Datestone in centre of ground floor has "E.S." over "1670". Two-light casement windows with segmental heads to South wing, flat arches in main block. Door at angle of two wings has finely carved panels. Large modern additions to North West.

RCHM II p.254. MON.2.

Listing NGR: SP8257035610

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Legacy System number:: 45884
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.