Building record 1008900000 - WOOD END FARMHOUSE, 2 WOOD END

Summary

Early seventeenth century timber-framed farmhouse built in 1619, with twentieth century extensions

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1216025: WOOD END FARMHOUSE (DBC4012)

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Type and Period (3)

  • FARMHOUSE (Dated 1619, 17th Century to Modern - 1600 AD to 1999 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. Dated 'E S 1619' on fireplace. Timber frame covered with colourwashed render. Weatherboarding to top of street gable. C20 pantile roof, brick chimneys to right gable and between left-hand bays. 1 1/2 storeys, 3 bays. Right-hand bays have paired barred wooden casements to ground floor and 3-light wooden casements to first floor under raised eaves. Lobby entry between left-hand bays has C20 gabled porch. Left bay obscured by C20 extensions in colourwashed brick with slate roof at right angels to main block. Rear has 3-light window with chamfered C17 wooden mullions. Interior: entry, spiral staircase and fireplace in line. Curved wind braces in roof (B1).
AVDC Conservation team notes that the rendering was removed in 1990 to reveal the timber framing and brick infill panels. The house has been in the same family for 3 generations, and the deeds go back to the C16th. Early documents are in the County Records Office (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <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. p43.
  • <2>SBC20286 Unpublished document: Aylesbury Vale District Council. Copy of AVDC Listed Buildings Information Card for Wood End Farmhouse, Nash.

Location

Grid reference SP 78355 33794 (point)
Civil Parish NASH, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Aug 2 2024 9:42PM

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