Building record 1053600000 - CHARITY FARMHOUSE, 26 THE GREEN

Summary

Late sixteenth to seventeenth century timber-framed alterations to an earlier cruck-built cottage

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1320151: CHARITY FARMHOUSE (DBC3786)

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Type and Period (4)

  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (15th Century to 17th Century - 1400 AD? to 1699 AD?)
  • (Alternate Type) CRUCK HOUSE (15th Century - 1400 AD? to 1499 AD?)
  • (Alternate Type) LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1500 AD? to 1699 AD)
  • HOUSE (15th Century to 17th Century - 1400 AD? to 1699 AD?)

Description

Grade II. House. Late C16-C17 alterations to older building, repaired C19 and C20. Timber frame with some thin brick infill, partly herringbone. Part rebuilt in red brick. 2 bays to left are slightly lower and have C20 tiled roof. Taller right bay has thatched roof, half-hipped to right, with brick chimney to left. 1½ storeys, 3 bays. Irregular barred wooden casements, those to first floor of left bays in eaves-line dormers with catslide roofs, that to upper right in thatch. Lobby entry has board door with C20 shallow gabled hood and 4-pane window above, just below the eaves. Blocked basement window in right bay, C20 extensions to rear. Interior has cruck truss between left bays and stop-chamfered spine beam and joists in central ground floor room (B1).
1 cruck truss with crossing curved blades. Source: R.W. Evans (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC19252 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury Vale District: Parishes of Aston Abbotts &C.
  • <2>SBC23395 Digital archive: Vernacular Architecture Group. 2004 onwards. Vernacular Architecture Group: Cruck Database.

Location

Grid reference SP 88301 27454 (point)
Civil Parish SOULBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Aug 18 2025 7:26PM

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