Building record 1031300000 - WOOTTON'S FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET

Summary

Seventeenth century timber-framed thatched farmhouse at Wootton's Farm, with eighteenth century witchert extension

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1118306: WOOTTON'S FARMHOUSE (DBC2187)

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Type and Period (2)

  • FARMHOUSE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1799 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. C17, enlarged C18. C17 timber-framed with plastered infill. C18 parts witchert, rendered on a rubblestone plinth, all colourwashed. Half-hipped thatched roofs. Letter-L plan with C18 range fronting road and C17 range at right angles at north. 2 bay street front, 3½ bay north west range. 2 storeys, attic to C18 range. C17 bays timber- framed upper floor, part witchert ground floor. Entrance in angle between wings in porch. Windows formerly leaded casements with iron opening casements, but leads mostly replaced by plain glass. 2 and 3-lights. C17 stack of old thin bricks in north west range. Colourwashed rubblestone projecting and weathered stack off centre to street front with brick flue. Brick half gable to C18 range, which has thatched outshot to its rear in angle. Interior has inglenook fireplaces and chamfered and stopped spine beams. The timber-framed C17 rangeof 3 bays stops short of the roadside, but C18 wing added a half bay to reach the road and extended to left to form letter-L plan. RCHM I. 127. MON.18 (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 76217 10514 (point)
Civil Parish DINTON-WITH-FORD AND UPTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jun 23 2022 4:03PM

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