Building record 0493700000 - MANOR FARMHOUSE, DRAYTON PARSLOW

Summary

Seventeenth century timber-framed farmhouse at Manor Farm, with later alterations and extensions.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1289257: MANOR FARMHOUSE

Map

Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to 19th Century - 1600 AD to 1899 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Dimensions - Width 10m, Length 12m.
Plan Form - L shaped.
Grade II. House. C17, altered. Whitewashed render to ground floor, roughcast to first floor, over timber frame. Steeply pitched tiled roofs. Mid C18 chimney stack at SE corner is of vitreous brick with red quoins. L-plan with original staircase and later extensions in angle. 2 storeys and attic. S. front has 2 gabled bays, that to left lower and narrower, Leaded casements, 2-light in left bay, 3-light to right. Left bay has C19 6-panelled door, half-glazed with rectangular fanlight in wooden doorcase of moulded pilaster strips and cornice hood on scroll brackets. Lean-to set back to left against remainder of rear wing, has C20 gabled dormer. C19 extension set back to right is of red brick with board door in lean-to porch and 3-light barred wooden casement to right. 3-light window to rear has main timber frame as mullions. Interior shows framing and has stop-chamfered spine beams and spiral staircase (B5).
2 storeys & attic, upper part roughcast, probably on timber framing. Lower part bricl. Large rectangular chimney to NE. Road front double gabled (B3).
Inclosure map (1798) confirms present Manor Farm was the Manor House (B4).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC26953 Bibliographic reference: George Lipscomb. 1847. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (Volume 3). Volume 3. p339.
  • <2>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. pp345-346.
  • <3>SBC3559 Bibliographic reference: DoE (Ministry of Housing & Local Government). 1956. PROVISIONAL LIST OF BUILDINGS OF ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC IMPORTANCE.
  • <4>SBC4395 Map: DRAYTON PARSLOW INCLOSURE MAP &AWARD 1798 (AT BRO, REF IR/107R); OS 6IN 1958; (ARP DERIVES INFO FROM.
  • <5>SBC19045 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Parishes of Drayton Parslow, Great Horwood, Little Horwood, Mursley, Nash, Newton Longville, Whaddon, & town of Winslow. p4.

Location

Grid reference SP 83795 28524 (point)
Civil Parish DRAYTON PARSLOW, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (3)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13590)

Record last edited

Nov 8 2024 12:59PM

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