Building record 1291200000 - RADNAGE BOTTOM FARMHOUSE, BLEDLOW RIDGE

Summary

Sixteenth to early seventeenth century timber-framed farmhouse, possibly originally a cruck-built hall house, with later alterations and extensions.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1332042: RADNAGE BOTTOM FARMHOUSE

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Type and Period (4)

  • FARMHOUSE (16th Century to 19th Century - 1500 AD to 1899 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (16th Century to 17th Century - 1500 AD to 1699 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) SINGLE ENDED HALL HOUSE? (16th Century to 17th Century - 1500 AD to 1699 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) CRUCK HOUSE? (15th Century to 16th Century - 1400 AD? to 1599 AD?)

Description

Grade II. House. C16-early C17, altered late C18-early C19. externally rebuilt in flint with brick dressings, the right bay an early C19 brick addition. Brick band course at first floor level, the right-hand block with dentil eaves. old tile roofs, hipped over right block; chimneys of thin brick. 2 storeys. 2-bay range to left with central chimney, possibly incorporating remains of an earlier hall; projecting cross wing at right end with 2 diagonal chimney shafts to rear of front bay, the rear bay and bay to right later additions. Right bays have large C20 leaded casements and off-centre C20 door in gabled timber porch. Left bays have leaded casements in older openings, mostly with C20 glazing, the paired casement to first floor right with older diamond glazing. Another gabled porch at left end. Old 3-light casement with patterned leading in angle to rear of right bay. Interior: front bay of cross wing has fine thin brick fireplaces with 4-centred chamfered arches on both floors. Upper room of left bay has corner cupboard with C16-C17 carved panels and frieze, and overmantel withIonic pilasters and curved panels of similar date, probably re-used. Timber-framed inner walls, double between wings with the left wall perhaps showing traces of former cruck construction (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC20224 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Wycombe District: Parishes of Bledlow &C. p19.

Location

Grid reference SU 78466 98614 (point)
Civil Parish BLEDLOW-CUM-SAUNDERTON, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Dec 18 2009 6:20PM

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