Building record 1043900000 - 57 TOWNSIDE

Summary

Seventeenth century timber-framed thatched and witchert house, formerly three cottages

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1159692: NO 57 TOWNSIDE (DBC4281)

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Type and Period (3)

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

Description

Grade II. House, formerly a terrace of three cottages. C17. Witchert, colourwashed and roughcast, colourwashed and rendered north or rear elevation. Half-hipped thatch roof. Five bays and one and a half storeys. Door in four bays, that in bay four from road has modern stone porch with a pantile roof. Fifth bay east has no door. Two left bays have sashes, middle bay steel casement, right two bays barred casements. Five eaves dormers with two-light casements the three right hand ones eavesbreaking. Stacks flank bay two and form lobby entry between bays four and five. Lobby entry stack is of C17 thin bricks. East gable is timber-framed and has plastered infill.
Interior. Several rooms have chamfered and stopped spine beams. The street gable has a rubblestone lower part. RCHM I. 181. MONS. 15-17 (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 73879 08194 (point)
Civil Parish HADDENHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jul 31 2025 2:48PM

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