Building record 1053500000 - HOLLY COTTAGE & RAVENSTONE COTTAGE, 20-22 THE GREEN

Summary

Pair of late sixteenth to seventeenth century timber-framed thatched cottages

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1219330: HOLLY COTTAGE AND RAVENSTONE COTTAGE (DBC3947)

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Type and Period (2)

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

Description

GRADE II. Pair of small houses. Late C16-C17, altered. Timber frame, left half with whitewashed render infill and planking over frame, right half with whitewashed brick infill. Half-hipped thatch roof, central rendered chimney, later chimney to left. 1½ storeys, 4 irregular bays. No. 20, to right, is slightly lower and narrower than No. 22. No. 22 has 3-light barred wooden casements flanking central board door, all with segmental heads, and barred horizontal sliding sash in thatch to right. C20 lean-to to centre of building has tiled roof, barred wooden casements and C20 door to No. 20. Door has small gable over. No 20 also has 2 casements in thatch, that to left C20, that to right an old 3-light leaded casement. Interior of No. 22 has massive chamfered spine beams and stop-chamfered joists in right hand-room (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC19252 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury Vale District: Parishes of Aston Abbotts &C.

Location

Grid reference SP 88320 27423 (point)
Civil Parish SOULBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Aug 18 2025 5:26PM

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