Building record 1227500000 - OLD KEEPERS COTTAGE, VILLAGE LANE

Grade II. C17, refronted C18. Timber-framed; old tile roof; red bricks, some burnt headers. Two sections. Left hand, 2 storeys. Ground floor with modern brick porch and two 2-light casement windows. Above them, built into the wall, a brick pediment which is seen, too, inside the house against the former back wall. First floor with 2 casements with wooden lintels. Right hand, 2 storeys. Ground floor with a 2-light casement and a door within a shallow modern tiled porch and another 2-light casement. First floor with a central blank window within the blue brick shape of a Palladian window and two 2-light casements (B1).
Historic building recording (level 2) carried out by members of Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society's Historic Buildings Group in December 2011 concluded that the building originally comprised two separate cottages, the first (south) cottage built between 1740 and 1762, the second (north) cottage built between1762 and 1770 and that there was no evidence for a timber frame. The decorative high quality brickwork was probably intended to act as advertising for a local brickmaker or bricklayer, and is in stark contrast with the poor-quality, re-used internal timbers. See report for detail (B2).