Building record 1010900000 - JASMINE COTTAGE, 52 WESTBROOK END

Summary

Fifteenth to sixteenth century cruck-built timber-framed thatched house, with seventeenth century alterations and extensions

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1287666: JASMINE COTTAGE (DBC2993)
  • Planning Notification Area: Late Medieval timber-framed building at 52 Westbrook End, Newton Longville (DBC9768)

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (15th Century to 17th Century - 1400 AD to 1699 AD)
  • CRUCK HOUSE (15th Century to 16th Century - 1400 AD to 1599 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (15th Century to 16th Century - 1400 AD to 1599 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. 2 C15-C16 bays to left, altered and extended C17. Timber frame with 3 cruck trusses, one exposed on left gable. Whitewashed plaster infill, pebbledashed stone plinth. Half-hipped thatch roof, small brick chimney between right-hand bays,partly rendered external chimney to front at left. 1½ storeys, 3 bays. Irregular casements, mostly C20. Ground floor has paired wooden casements in left-hand bays and single light with cast iron latticing to right. 2 paired wooden casements in thatch. Ledged board door to left of centre bay. Altered single storey extension to right has fishscale tile roof and one paired lattice casement. Central room on ground floor has painted flower decoration on crucks and stop-chamfered spine beam and joists. RCHM II p 218 MON 32 (B1).
3 cruck trusses with single curve blades truncated above the collar, passing the collar but with no upper structure. Source: P. Woodfield (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. p50.
  • <2>SBC23395 Digital archive: Vernacular Architecture Group. 2004 onwards. Vernacular Architecture Group: Cruck Database.

Location

Grid reference SP 84368 31217 (point)
Civil Parish NEWTON LONGVILLE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Aug 1 2024 4:55PM

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