Building record 1152400000 - MAGPIE COTTAGE, 11 THE GREEN

Summary

Late eighteenth century house dated 1763, with nineteenth century alterations and extension

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1311381: MAGPIE COTTAGE (DBC4476)

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Type and Period (1)

  • HOUSE (Dated 1763, 18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. Dated 1763 on bricks, altered mid C19. Right side is of red brick with gauged brick heads to ground floor openings. Front has ornamental pebbledash with smoothly rendered and whitewashed quoins and bonded surrounds to openings. Brick plinth. Old tile roof, hipped to right. Brick chimneys. L-plan. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Old paired leaded casements with pebbledash voussoirs. Central 6-panelled door, top lit, in wooden architrave frame with flat wooden cornice hood. Right side has 4 bays of similar casements, the second bay with a 2-panelled door, and an early C19 extension to right. Phoenix fire insurance plaque. Plaque at upper right-hand corner of front wall records birth of George Lipscomb, Historian of Buckinghamshire, in this house January 4th 1773 (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC19269 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p37.

Location

Grid reference SP 74622 20151 (point)
Civil Parish QUAINTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jun 6 2023 12:41AM

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