Cressex House
CRESSEX HOUSE, CRESSEX ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332377
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Cressex House
- Statutory Address:
- CRESSEX HOUSE, CRESSEX ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332377
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Cressex House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRESSEX HOUSE, CRESSEX 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:
- CRESSEX HOUSE, CRESSEX ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 85371 91510
Details
The following building shall be added:-
HIGH WYCOMBE CRESSEX ROAD SU 89 SE (North Side) 7/320 Cressex House II Farmhouse and attached outbuildings, now all one commercial premise. C17, C18, and early-mid C19; later C19 and C20 alterations. Brick mostly red, in Flemish bond; plain tile roofs. C17 main range refronted early-mid C19, with C17 wing to rear left altered and extended probably mid C18 and early-mid C19, and with late C18/early C19 outbuilding range attached at rear right corner, 2nd range built behind main range early C19, parallel and projecting on right. 2 storeys with attic and partial cellar; wing partly of 1 storey, outbuilding 2 storeys. Entrance elevation: 5 bays. Central 4-panel door below overlight with decorative glazing bars. 16-pane sashes in reveals with gauged flat brick arches. A gable at each end with similar attic window. Stone coped parapet. Central C20 flat-roofed dormer. Ridge stack to right of centre. Rear: sections of different brickwork; three 16-pane sashes on 1st floor; a 12-pane sash to wing. Right return: rear range has a segmental-arched 16-pane sash on each floor. Left return: some C17 orangey brick in irregular English bond. Front range has 16-pane sash to ground floor; similar opening above partly blocked and with smaller window. Wing of 2 + 2 bays with segmental-arched small-pane windows, blocked similarly-arched door on left, inserted door on right, and one C20 window above; large ridge stack and one at left end truncated. Former outbuilding has mostly C20 fenestration, 2 segmental-arched windows to ground floor; lst-floor taking-in doorway, and 3-light window with diagonal glazing bars. Interior: C17 features include stop chamfered beams, posts, fireback left-hand ground-floor room, and in attic wide floor boards and original purlins and rafters. C18 features include fine keyed, round-arched, corner cupboard with moulded shelves in wing and similar, but plainer, cupboards flanking fireplace in ground-floor left room; this room also has panelled window reveals and shutters. C19 stair, and fireplace in front right-hand room.
Listing NGR: SU8537191510
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46179
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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