Building record 1115100000 - CROMWELL HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

Summary

Early seventeenth century thatched house, built about 1600, with remains of contemporaray wall paintings.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1288523: CROMWELL HOUSE (DBC3028)

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (Built about 1600, 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
  • WALL PAINTING (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
  • LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. Circa 1600. Coursed rubble stone, timber lintels to openings, thatched roof. Small brick stack to left gable, 2 other stacks of thin brick, rebuilt, with square shafts set diagonally, 2 to stack between left-hand bays, single shaft to right gable. 1½ storeys, 3 bays. Irregular wooden casements, renewed C20, 4-light to ground floor left-hand bays, 2-light to right and to first floor. Upper windows in small gables with thatch swept round. Lobby entry between left-hand bays has 9-panelled, studded door of old oak in moulded and stopped frame, and small staircase windows to left, the upper one blocked. Blocked doorway between right-hand bays. Interior: massive stop- chamfered spine beams and joists. Fragments of c1600 paintings on front wall. Staircase to front of stack has old treads. RCHM II p.192 Mon 12 (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC3775 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST. p18.

Location

Grid reference SP 64535 23050 (point)
Civil Parish MARSH GIBBON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 5 2009 1:48PM

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