Building record 1102300000 - BROOKS FARM, 21 NEARTON END

Summary

Fifteenth century cruck-built timber-framed thatched house with later alterations and extensions

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1288213: NO 21 NEARTON END
  • Planning Notification Area: Late Medieval timber-framed building at 21 Nearton End, Swanbourne

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (15th Century to 17th Century - 1400 AD to 1699 AD)
  • CRUCK HOUSE (15th Century - 1400 AD to 1499 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (15th Century - 1400 AD to 1499 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. C15, altered C17, extended to rear C19-C20. Timber frame with whitewashed brick infill. Cruck trusses to gables and centre. Some whitewashed rubble stone to right gable. Half-hipped thatch roof, brick chimney to right. 1½ storeys, 2 bays. Right-hand bay has barred wooden casements, 2-light to ground floor, 3-light above in thatch. Left gable has similar paired casements, that to ground floor C20. Entries to rear and right side of extension. Interior has heavy curved wind-braces and purlins. RCHM II p. 293 Mon. 32 (B1).
AVDC Conservation team notes that the house has 3 cruck trusses, the two outer ones are in the gable ends where the blades terminate above the collars (B2).
3 cruck trusses with curved blades. Source: A.G. Taylor (B3).

Sources (3)

  • <1>SBC20017 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Bucks: Aylesbury Vale: Parishes of Dunton &C. p61.
  • <2>SBC20278 Unpublished document: Aylesbury Vale District Council. Copy of AVDC Listed Buildings Information Card for 21 Nearton End, Swanbourne.
  • <3>SBC23395 Digital archive: Vernacular Architecture Group. 2004 onwards. Vernacular Architecture Group: Cruck Database.

Location

Grid reference SP 80562 27056 (point)
Civil Parish SWANBOURNE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 11 2023 12:21PM

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