Building record 1226500000 - SLADE FARMHOUSE, VILLAGE LANE

Summary

Nineteenth century folly, now Slade Farmhouse, possibly built with medieval stonework from Hedgerley church.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1124398: SLADE FARMHOUSE (DBC1326)

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Type and Period (3)

  • FARMHOUSE (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • FOLLY (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT? (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)

Description

Grade II. Mid C19 folly, reputed to have been built from materials from Hedgerley old church. Flint with stone dressings; machine tile mansard roof with some bands of fishscale tiles. Quoins; angle buttresses. Two storeys plus attic; 3 bays. Ground floor with a bay window with stone parapet and tracery, central 'Romanesque' doorway with 3 orders of colonnettes and half-hipped roof and a 3-light window. A string course runs at the level of the parapet to the bay window, drops to the level of the capitals of the porch and rises again to form a kind of hood mould to the 3-light window. First floor with a 3-light window with a hood mould, a central Decorated style elongated lozenge-shaped window with leaded glazing and an oriel type window with moulded stone base and tiled roof. Attic storey with two 2-light arched casements with their arched heads within shaped gables (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC4001 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: DISTRICT OF SOUTH BUCKS. p159.

Location

Grid reference SU 96766 88085 (point)
Civil Parish HEDGERLEY, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

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Record last edited

Apr 21 2016 12:10PM

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