Building record 1006100000 - OLD OAKS, WOOD END

Summary

Late sixteenth century timber-framed house with later alterations and extensions

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1214024: OLD OAKS (DBC3612)

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Type and Period (4)

  • HOUSE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1500 AD to 1699 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (16th Century - 1500 AD to 1599 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE (16th Century - 1500 AD to 1599 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) JETTIED HOUSE (16th Century - 1500 AD to 1599 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. Late C16, altered. Timber-frame with close studding to ground floor and jettied first floor. C20 brick infill, part colourwashed. Right gable and ground floor of left gable rebuilt C17 in rubble stone, upper part of right gable now covered in colourwashed roughcast. Old tile roof, hipped to left. Brick chimneys to gables and between right-hand bays. 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Irregular C20 leaded windows, 3-light in left-hand bays, 2-light to lower right, 2 single lights to upper right. Lobby entry between right-hand bays has lintel with 4-centred arch, altered. C20 attic dormer to left side. C20 extensions in colourwashed brick to rear and set back to left. Interior has moulded cross beams in ground floor room to left, fireplace with moulded Tudor arch to wooden lintel in same room, and stone fireplace on first floor with moulded jambs and chamfered lintel. Another large open fireplace at right end. Roof has curved windbraces. RCHM II p 177-8 MON 16 (B1).

Sources (3)

  • <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. p29.
  • <2>SBC23 Bibliographic reference: 1949 SALE CATALOGUE IN BRO.
  • <3>SBC20467 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1913. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 2. pp177-178,Plate opposite p112.

Location

Grid reference SP 79404 30820 (point) (2 map features)
Civil Parish LITTLE HORWOOD, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 14 2024 12:42PM

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