Building record 1246700000 - COLDHARBOUR FARMHOUSE, TOWER ROAD

Summary

Seventeenth century timber-framed farmhouse at Coldharbour Farm with attached eighteenth century outbuilding

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1238032: COLDHARBOUR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING (DBC6677)

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Type and Period (3)

  • FARMHOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
  • OUTBUILDING (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. C17 timber frame cased in red brick and altered. Old tiled roof, large brick stack in centre. 2 storeys, upper one with modern oak timbering in line with originals still intact inside. Two modern leaded casements to each floor, modern tiled porch on right, lean-to addition to right hand gable wall with exposed timber framing above. Modern rear wing. Outbuilding attached on left, C18 brick, old tiled roof, hipped over part nearest house with dentil eaves, weather- vane. Interior of house: ground floor right hand room has moulded beams and cornice; inglenook fireplaces in both ground floor rooms. First floor has exposed timber framing to front wall including jowled posts and curved braces. Original roof timbers with curved windbraces. Evidence of original timber window in east gable (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC19816 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Chiltern District: Parishes of Amersham, Chesham Bois and Coleshill. p71.

Location

Grid reference SU 95653 95850 (point)
Civil Parish AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Dec 21 2016 10:41AM

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