Building record 1001400000 - 6, The Green (The Old Post House)

Summary

Seventeenth century timber-framed house

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1289130: THE OLD POST HOUSE

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Type and Period (2)

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

Description

Grade II. House. C17 altered. Timber frame with rendered infill to front and whitewashed plaster in fill to left gable. Right gable rebuilt with sham half timbering. Slate roof, flanking brick chimneys. 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Barred wooden casements, canted bay windows to ground floor outer bays with 3-light windows above and paired lights in dormers, paired lights to first floor of centre bay over 4-panelled door with minimal wooden pilaster strips to sides, wooden panel frieze and small cornice (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>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. p9.

Location

Grid reference SP 77155 31194 (point)
Civil Parish GREAT HORWOOD, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 26 2011 9:47AM

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