Building record 1004100000 - ABBEY COTTAGE, SINGLEBOROUGH

Summary

Early eighteenth century timber-framed thatched house with later alterations.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1213685: ABBEY COTTAGE

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (Built about 1700, 18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. Circa 1700, altered, right-hand bay rebuilt. Timber frame with diagonal braces, whitewashed brick and plaster infill, and brick plinth partly pebbledashed. Whitewashed rubble stone base of chimney stack shows between left-hand bays. Thatched roof. Main chimney has some thin brick, another brick chimney, external to right gable. 1 ½ storeys, 3 bays. Leaded casements, 3-light to ground floor, 2-light above thatch eyebrows. C20 door and porch between right-hand bays (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. p20.

Location

Grid reference SP 76658 31896 (point)
Civil Parish GREAT HORWOOD, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 26 2011 10:56AM

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