Building record 1212204000 - BURKE LODGE AND AFRICA HOUSE, 20 LONDON END

Summary

Sixteenth or seventeenth century timber-framed inn called The Crown Inn, refronted in the eighteenth century, subsequently used as two houses and now offices

Protected Status/Designation

Listed Building (II*) 1124572: AFRICA HOUSE AND BURKE LODGE (DBC1496)

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Type and Period (5)

HOUSE (19th Century to Modern - 1800 AD to 1999 AD)
INN (First mentioned 1487, 16th Century to 18th Century - 1500 AD? to 1799 AD)
STABLE (16th Century to 18th Century - 1500 AD? to 1799 AD?)
OFFICE (21st Century - 2000 AD to 2099 AD)
(Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1500 AD? to 1699 AD?)

Description

Grade II+. Now 2 dwellings, but formerly one, previously the Crown Inn. U-shaped in plan. C16/17 origin, refronted C18. Timber-framed; colourwashed cement rendered; old tile roof behind parapet. Quoins at both ends of elevation. Five canted bay windows through 2 storeys, 2 of them with the porches to the houses set in their lower part. First floor with five 1:3:1 windows with C18 glazing bars in form of octagons and a similarly glazed semicircular window over the carriage entrance. Ground floor with three 1:3:1 windows, 2 Tuscan pedimented porches, that to Africa House with metopes and triglyphs, that to Burke Lodge, smaller. Between the houses, a carriage entrance with panelled door and pointed arches opening with decorated spandrels. Stable wing at rear of Burke Lodge. Two storeys; colourwashed brick; much restored. RCHM I, p 43 (item 8). Africa House formerly known as Burke House (B1).
The Crown Inn is first mentioned in documentary sources in 1487 (B2).

Sources (2)

<1>SBC4001 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: DISTRICT OF SOUTH BUCKS. p28.
<2>SBC27282 Bibliographic reference: Beaconsfield and District Historical Society. 2011. Britain in Old Photographs: Beaconsfield. pp26,31.

Location

Grid reference	SU 94605 90096 (point)
Civil Parish	BEACONSFIELD, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire