Building record 1240300000 - PEDNOR HOUSE

Summary

Pednor House, a seventeenth century timber-framed farmhouse with eighteenth century refronting and early twentieth century rchitect-designed extensions.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1124904: PEDNOR HOUSE (DBC6320)

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (Extended about 1910, 17th Century to Modern - 1600 AD to 1999 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. Formerly Little Pednor a farmhouse enlarged and the barn and outbuildings converted to a large house c.1910, architect Forbes and Tate. Original house C17 timber framed refronted in brick C18, greatly enlarged c1910. Brick with moulded brick window surrounds, mullions and transomes, quoins and other features. Clay tiled hipped roofs. Two storeys. North elevation faces courtyard. Original house in centre with 2-storey projection of 1910 with 5-light window; domed cupola on ridge. All windows with metal casements and leaded glazing. Two original windows on left, one on right. To right additions of c1910 of 2 bays and another projecting bay with garage to ground floor, 6-light window above. Right hand wing a separate cottage formed from farm buildings. One storey, roof at two different levels. 2 chimneys, 1 door, 6 irregular windows, 2 windows to gable, flank wall attached with arched gateway. Left hand wing: 2-storey projecting corner block with large mullioned and transomed window in flank wall, projecting eaves. Linked to converted barn probably C18, timber framed with c1910 brick infill. Gabled former cart entry projection in centre with oak doors, old beam reset above with 4-light window over. Low outshots each side under continuation of main roof, 2 windows on right, 1 window on left. One 2- light hipped dormer on right. Gable end to road has two 2-light windows to ground floor, 2 single-light windows above - Rear elevation (to garden) has two former cart entries now filled by 6-light mullion and transome windows, under projecting roof supported on half curved tiled crobels. 4-light hipped dormer on left. Garden elevation of house: Long continuous frontage, with original house left of centre Gatehouse feature right of centre with octagonal turret with stone spire and stone 'Tudor' arched gateway is an alteration probably of the 1920's (B1).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC3679 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1983. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST. p16.
  • <2>SBC19002 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Service. 1998. Historic Parks and Gardens Register Review.
  • <3>SBC24066 Bibliographic reference: Richard Bisgrove. 1992. The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll.
  • <4>SBC24695 Bibliographic reference: Jane Brown. 1982. Gardens of a Golden Afternoon: The Story of a Partnership: Edwin Lutyens & Gertrude Jekyll.
  • <5>SBC24819 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust. 2016. Pednor House: Understanding Historic Parks and Gardens in Buckinghamshire.

Location

Grid reference SP 92520 02705 (point)
Civil Parish CHARTRIDGE, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

May 10 2020 8:18PM

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