Building record 0491700000 - ABBOT'S COTTAGE AND ABBOT'S LODGE, 2 AND 3 MAIN STREET

Summary

Seventeenth century timber-framed thatched house, formerly the vicarage, now divided into two.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1232025: ABBOT'S COTTAGE AND ABBOT'S LODGE

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Type and Period (4)

  • HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
  • VICARAGE (Recorded 1607, 16th Century to 19th Century - 1500 AD? to 1899 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

Plan Form - Rectangular.
Terrier October 1607: 'The vicarage house built of timber & thatcht, consisting of 3 bays chambered over & boarded; a barn of 2 bays thatchd' (B1).
The old vicarage dates from the C16 & is now divided into 2 tenements (B2).
Probably late C16. In front & at the back some of the brick is original & set in herringbone pattern. Wall at W end is partly of stone. [Further description] (B3 ).
At NGR (B5). (Later vicarage at SP7204 3098).
Grade II. House, now pair of cottages. C17. Timber framed with whitewashed brick infill, some herringbone. Whitewashed rubble stone and brick to left gable. Thatch roof, brick stacks to right gable and between left-hand bays. One-and-a-half storeys, three bays. C19 3-light casements to left-hand bay and windows in thatch, paired barred casements to ground floor right-hand bays. Board doors to left and left of centre, the latter with single casement adjoining to left. RCHM II p 234 MON 3 (B4).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC16730 Bibliographic reference: Browne Willis. 1755. The History and Antiquities of the Town, Hundred and Deanry of Buckingham. pp246-247.
  • <2>SBC20463 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1927. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume IV. Volume 4. p210.
  • <3>SBC20467 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1913. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 2. p234.
  • <4>SBC19250 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1983. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p45.
  • <5>SBC10479 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1979. OS 1979 1:2500 MAP. Paper. 1:2,500.

Location

Grid reference SP 71982 30693 (point)
Civil Parish PADBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 14 2024 5:47PM

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