Building record 1043200000 - 7 TOWNSEND

Summary

Seventeenth century witchert house, formerly two cottages, with eighteenth century extension and attached wichert boundary wall

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1310911: NO 7 AND WITCHERT WALL TO SOUTH WEST FRONTING THE GREEN

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1799 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
  • BOUNDARY WALL (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD? to 1799 AD?)

Description

Grade II. House. C17, extended at left in C18 to form 2 cottages, but now one. Witchert, rendered and colourwashed on rubble plinth also rendered and colourwashed. Thatched roof, hipped at right. 1½ storeys and 4 bays. 2 doors in 2nd bay from left. 2-light leaded casements to ground floor, 2 to left bay. 2-light left hand eaves dormer, 3-light leaded casement eaves dormer in third bay from left. 2-light casement above left hand door. C17 stack in 2nd bay forms lobby entry plan. Left gable stack with 2-light off centre first floor leaded casement. Interior has chamfered and stopped spine beams. To south-west fronting Townsend green is witchert wall rendered on a rubble plinth with a pantile and cement ridge coping. RCHM I. 183. MON.43 (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. p119.

Location

Grid reference SP 74100 09130 (point)
Civil Parish HADDENHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jul 18 2022 11:33AM

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