Building record 1190300000 - THE WHITE HOUSE, MAIN STREET, GAWCOTT

Summary

Seventeenth century thatched house with nineteenth and twentieth century alterations.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1205882: THE WHITE HOUSE (DBC2595)

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Type and Period (2)

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

Description

Grade II. House. C17, altered C19 and C20. Rendered probably over stone and brick, painted, with thatched roof, brick end and ridge stacks. 3-unit lobby entry plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Central 6-panel door with glazed top panels and gabled hood on struts. 3-light leaded casement windows to ground floor, that to far right with wood lintel. 2-light casement to 1st floor right and a pair of 3-light leaded casements to 1st floor left, that to left of centre with old glass. 2-storey wing of coursed rubble to rear left with slate roof and brick lateral and ridge stacks. INTERIOR: chamfered spine beams, all stud partitions and open fireplace with unusual bressumer, moulded and cambered with incised head to centre and other incised ornament (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>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 67997 31888 (point)
Civil Parish BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2023 11:49AM

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