Building record 1154800000 - 2 & 2A THE STRAND

Summary

Late medieval timber-framed cruck-built thatched house with seventeenth and early eighteenth century alterations

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1158963: NOS 2 AND 2A THE STRAND

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (15th Century to 18th Century - 1400 AD to 1799 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) CRUCK HOUSE (15th Century - 1400 AD? to 1499 AD?)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (15th Century to 18th Century - 1400 AD? to 1799 AD?)

Description

Grade II. Range of 2 houses. C17-early C18 alterations to late medieval building. Timber frame with whitewashed render infill. Thatched roof, half-hipped to right, part of the lower front pitch tiled over raised eaves. 4 brick chimneys. 1½ storeys, 5 bays. Ground floor has irregular barred wooden casements, the 4th bay with a canted bay window. Upper floor has 4 paired barred wooden casements, that in 4th bay in thatch the others in eaves-line dormers with slate or corrugated iron roofs. Half-glazed door between bays 3 and 4. Gabled projection to second bay has tiled roof, door with flanking single casements, and porch to front. This bay has flanking cruck trusses. RCHM II p. 248 Mon. 33 (B1).
3 cruck trusses with curved blades. Source: R.W. Evans, Buckinghamshire CC (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC19269 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p51.
  • <2>SBC23395 Digital archive: Vernacular Architecture Group. 2004 onwards. Vernacular Architecture Group: Cruck Database.

Location

Grid reference SP 74694 20018 (point)
Civil Parish QUAINTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jun 7 2023 2:50PM

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