Building record 1168400000 - LAWN HOUSE, EDGCOTT

Summary

Seventeenth century timber-framed house with late nineteenth and twentieth century alterations

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1158482: LAWN HOUSE (DBC2372)

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to Modern - 1600 AD to 1999 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. C17, altered. Timber frame exposed to rear, gables and first floor front of left bay. Brick infill, partly thin C17 brick, partly herringbone. Remainder of front range rebuilt in red and vitreous brick early C19 and later. Rear wing completely of thin brick with first floor band course and rubble stone plinth. Old tile roofs, chimney with base of thin brick between left bays of front range, another thin brick chimney to rear wing. Small C20 external chimney to front between right bays. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Irregular C20 diamond leaded casements. C20 gabled porch between left bays. Rear wing also has basement and attic with dormer window. According to RCHM interior has one room with C17 panelling, stone fireplace with depressed arch to first floor, and part of C17 balustrade to staircase landing. RCHM II p. 132 Mon. 15 (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC19811 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury Vale: Parishes of Boarstall &C.

Location

Grid reference SP 68039 22218 (point)
Civil Parish GRENDON UNDERWOOD, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 31 2017 7:29PM

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