Building record 1028600000 - BIGGS CAVE, BIGGS LANE

Summary

Seventeenth century thatched witchert house with later alterations

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1332917: BIGGS CAVE

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. C17, altered. Witchert rendered, rubblestone plinth. Left gable rubblestone ground floor. All colourwashed. Thatched roof, half-hipped with timber-framed gables. 3 bays, 1½ storeys. North elevation to lane has blocked door in front of stack between left hand bays. Casement windows, the central one of 2 leaded lights. Left hand eaves dormer. Above door wall extended up to form swept roofed addition with 2-light casement. South or garden elevation has door in centre bay and irregular casements, central eaves dormer. Stack of C17 thin bricks between east bays, formerly a lobby entry plan house. Interior: Inglenook fireplaces. Chamfered and stopped spine beams and a reused timber inscribed 'I.S.W. 1609' (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC19924 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Bucks: Aylesbury Vale: Parishes of Ashendon &C.

Location

Grid reference SP 76402 10724 (point)
Civil Parish DINTON-WITH-FORD AND UPTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jun 16 2022 2:37PM

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