Building record 1032400000 - FIELD COTTAGE, UPTON
Summary
Seventeenth century timber-framed witchert house incorporating an earlier cruck-built structure
Protected Status/Designation
- Listed Building (II) 1118313: FIELD COTTAGE (DBC2192)
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Type and Period (3)
- HOUSE (15th Century to 17th Century - 1400 AD? to 1699 AD)
- CRUCK HOUSE (15th Century - 1400 AD? to 1499 AD?)
- (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (15th Century to 17th Century - 1400 AD? to 1699 AD)
Description
Grade II. Cottage. C17, perhaps incorporating earlier fabric. Colourwashed roughcast on witchert. Old tile roof. 3 bays and 1½ storeys. Stack between left hand bays. Doorway at rear. Front has mullioned and transomed casements to ground floor, 2-light to outer bays, 3 to centre bay. Small window in front of stack. Eyebrow dormers to left bays with paired casements. Half-hipped gables. Inside some timber framing and beams including what could be an upper cruck blade terminating at collar level (B1).
1 cruck truss with elbowed blades, truncated above collar, passing the collar but with no upper structure. Source: R.W. Evans; J. Bailey (B2).
Sources (2)
- <1>SBC19924 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Bucks: Aylesbury Vale: Parishes of Ashendon &C.
- <2>SBC23395 Digital archive: Vernacular Architecture Group. 2004 onwards. Vernacular Architecture Group: Cruck Database.
Location
| Grid reference | SP 77254 11508 (point) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | DINTON-WITH-FORD AND UPTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire |
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Record last edited
Jun 23 2022 8:01PM
