Building record 1176300000 - WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BOURTON

Summary

Sixteenth century farmhouse at White House Farm, largely rebuilt in the early nineteenth century

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1282705: WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE (DBC3178)

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Type and Period (1)

  • FARMHOUSE (16th Century to 19th Century - 1500 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. Farmhouse. Early C19 with C16 origins. Coursed squared limestone with red brick details, hipped slate roof, brick internal stacks with octagonal brick flues. Double-depth plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Main front faces garden to south and has central C20 part-glazed door with reused early C16 Tudor-arched limestone head with rosettes and panel tracery to spandrels, hoodmould, and moulded jambs remade in stuccoed brick. 3-light casement windows to ground and first floors and similar 2-light window to 1st floor centre, all with diamond leading, thin chamfered brick mullions and round arch-headed lights, painted, the lights grouped under cemented elliptical-arched heads with hoodmoulds. Plinth and red brick pilaster strips to angles. 2-light cellar window to right side elevation beside door with similar brick mullion jambs round arch-headed lights grouped under stone round-arched head. Lower 2-storey wing to rear which has casement windows with segmental-arched heads. INTERIOR has small stone cellar (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC3596 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1973. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: BOROUGH OF BUCKINGHAM.
  • <2>SBC23498 Bibliographic reference: Department of National Heritage (DNH). 1994. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: BOROUGH OF BUCKINGHAM.

Location

Grid reference SP 72268 33805 (point)
Civil Parish BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Feb 23 2018 6:59PM

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