Building record 1039300000 - THIEVES' KITCHEN, 3 HIGH STREET

Summary

Sixteenth and seventeenth century timber-framed thatched and wichert house with eighteenth century alterations and extension, formerly two houses

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1118266: THIEVE'S KITCHEN

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (16th Century to 18th Century - 1500 AD to 1799 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1500 AD to 1699 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1500 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. C16 and C17, altered C18 and extended. Timber-framed. Rear elevation exposed with plastered or painted brick infill. Front elevation clad in rubble or render, both colourwashed. Witchert south elevation. Thatched roof, hipped to south. 2 bays with slightly lower slate roofed north bay. Lean-to beyond. 2 storeys with attic. Leaded casements, some C18, others modern. Street front has 3 to ground floor and central first floor window. Gable elevation has 2 ground floor casements, one to first floor and off-centre stack. Garden elevation has 4-light casements to left bay, door in front of stack to form lobby entry plan and 3-light casement to right or north bay, 2-light above. Left hand dormer window. Interior: Moulded fireplace lintel on first floor, chamfered and stopped spine beams. Stack between north bays, and to its south, doubled timber-framed wall and roof truss indicating that north bay was formerly a separate dwelling. RCHM.I.182.MON.28 (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 74008 08758 (point)
Civil Parish HADDENHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jul 3 2022 2:44PM

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