Building record 1287101000 - 3 & 4 BOCKMER END COTTAGES

Summary

Pair of late nineteenth century estate cottages, built about 1898-1900

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1125581: NOS 3 AND 4 BOCKMER END COTTAGES

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (Built about 1898-1900, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) ESTATE COTTAGE (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. Pair of estate cottages. Circa 1898-1900. By Romaine Walker for Mr. Robert Hudson of Danesfield. Ground floor of dressed chalk blocks; upper storey roughcast and whitewashed; plain tile roof; wooden bargeboards to gables; brick chimneys with 'V' pilasters and off-set heads to ends and centre. Picturesque. 1½ storeys, the upper storey jettied to S. and E. with wooden bressumer on curved wooden brackets. 4 bays, the W. bay gabled. Ground floor has 3 pairs of 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows, and board doors in 4-centred arches flanking central window. Upper storey has 5-light canted wooden oriel in gabled bay, and 3 2-light gabled dormers. Leaded glazing. Wooden bressumer over oriel. Rear has lower eaves line, flanking catslide projections, similar stone mullion windows, and board doors in stop-chamfered surrounds. 4-light dormers with 'M' gables to centre and right, raking 6-light dormer to left, 2-light casement in right gable (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.

Location

Grid reference SU 81090 86347 (point)
Civil Parish MEDMENHAM, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jul 27 2016 12:21PM

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