Building record 1169700000 - MINSTREL COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

Summary

Fifteenth to early sixteenth century timber-framed cruck-built thatched house with seventeenth century extension

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1311432: MINSTREL COTTAGE

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (15th Century to 17th Century - 1400 AD to 1699 AD)
  • CRUCK HOUSE (15th Century - 1400 AD? to 1499 AD?)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (15th Century to 16th Century - 1400 AD to 1599 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. C15-early C16 and C17. Timber frame with whitewashed brick infill and rubble stone plinth. Thatched roof, half-hipped to right over weatherboarded outbuilding of one bay. Rebuilt brick chimney with pilasters between left bays. Taller C17 bay to left is of 1½ storeys with 3-light leaded casements, that to ground floor with board hood, upper window in thatch. 2 lower bays to right are of one storey and an attic and have paired leaded casements to ground floor and lobby entry to left. Lean-to at left end with hipped thatch roof. Right bay of house has flanking cruck trusses, centre bay has stop-chamfered spine beam (B1).
2 cruck trusses with curved blades, truncated above collar, passing the collar but with no upper structure. Source: R.W. Evans, Buckinghamshire CC (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC19811 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury Vale: Parishes of Boarstall &C.
  • <2>SBC23395 Digital archive: Vernacular Architecture Group. 2004 onwards. Vernacular Architecture Group: Cruck Database.

Location

Grid reference SP 68082 20754 (point)
Civil Parish GRENDON UNDERWOOD, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 1 2024 4:08PM

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