Building record 1147800000 - FLEET MARSTON FARMHOUSE

Summary

Late seventeenth century farmhouse at Fleet Marston Farm, with later additions.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1319254: FLEET MARSTON FARMHOUSE (DBC4516)

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Type and Period (1)

  • FARMHOUSE (17th Century to 19th Century - 1600 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. Cross wing to east is late C17, altered. C18 and C19 extensions to west forming L-plan with lean-to filling rear angle. Roughcast over brick, the C17 wing of thin brick. First floor band course, left bays with shaped eaves. Old tile roof, hipped to right. Large chimney of thin brick with rebuilt cogged top between right bays, later small chimney between left bays. 2 storeys and attic, 3 main bays with narrow entrance hall between left bays. Irregular wooden casements with single horizontal glazing bars, 2 to ground floor right and centre in square projections with lean-to tile roofs. 3 hipped dormers with similar paired casements. Half-glazed C20 door in C20 gabled timber porch. Ground floor room to right has stop-chamfered spine beam and large fireplace in line with winder stair. RCHM I p. 159 Mon.3 (B1).


(SP77501645) Fleetmarston Farm [NAT] (B2).
Fleet Marston Farm is a house partly of two-storeys and an attic, and partly single-storeyed. The walls are covered with rough-cast, and the roofs are tiled. It consists of a rectangular block facing South, probably built ca.1650, with modern additions at each end at the rear, and a SE wing which makes an L-shaped plan, the wing also probably being modern but reusing older material. Condition - Good (B3).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC19269 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p3.
  • <2>SBC28494 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1958. OS 6" 1958.
  • <3>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume 1. Volume 1. p159.
  • <4>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference SP 77461 16490 (point)
Civil Parish FLEET MARSTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jul 13 2026 12:44PM

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