Gable Cottage

GABLE COTTAGE, FORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1332921
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Gable Cottage
Statutory Address:
GABLE COTTAGE, FORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1332921
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
Gable Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
GABLE COTTAGE, FORD ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GABLE 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 76746 11003

Details

SP 71 SE DINTON-WITH-FORD FORD ROAD, Dinton AND UPTON (east side)

3/124 Gable Cottage (formerly listed as 'The Gables') 25.10.51

GV II

House. C16 and C17. Formerly part of one house, but now with break in middle, Gable Cottage is south crosswing and Summers Cottage (q.v.) is north crosswing. Timber-framed with brick infill on rubblestone plinth. Street gable elevation C19 brick. Rear wing timber-framed upper floor, rubblestone ground floor. Upper floor of left bay rubblestone on south side. Old tile roofs. 2 storeys plus attic. Crosswing gable to road, short bay at left remains of centre range. Gabled front has 2 two-light leaded casements with segmental arched heads. Herringbone infill to framed gable. Board door in left bay with jettied upper floor, moulded bressumer and cut brackets. 2-light leaded first floor casement. Left or north elevation has 2 blocked fireplaces exposed, both with depressed brick arches formerly heating missing centre range. Tiled hip and C18 flue. Rear wing has on north side one 3-light ovolo mullioned first floor window, remainder of windows on wing 2 and 3 light casements. Interior. Chamfered and stopped spine beams. Much exposed framing. Summers Cottage and Gable Cottage originally called 'The Dower House'. RCHM I.127. MON.9 (PART).

Listing NGR: SP7674611003

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
43061
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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