Building record 1286201000 - MAY COTTAGE

Summary

Seventeenth to early eighteenth century timber-framed house with later extensions.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1125605: MAY COTTAGE

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Type and Period (2)

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

Description

Grade II. House. 2 C17-early C18 bays with later extensions to right and rear. Timber framed with whitewashed roughcast and render infill, plain tile roof, small whitewashed brick chimney to left. One storey and attic. C20 leaded casements, the left bay with 2-light oriel to ground floor and 4-light attic window in large gabled eaves-line dormer, the right bay with smaller dormer. Door in gabled roughcast porch to right of centre. Taller extension of one bay to right has half-timbering to lower storey and one C20 2-light casement. Rear of original cottage has whitewashed brick infill and later buttresses. C20 rear extensions are roughcast and whitewashed (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC4242 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1987. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST; BUCKS: WYCOMBE DISTRICT: PARISHES OF CHEPPING WYCOMBE &C. p24.

Location

Grid reference SU 90061 86594 (point)
Civil Parish HEDSOR, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jun 13 2008 12:14PM

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