Building record 1291503000 - THE COTTAGE

Summary

Fifteenth to sixteenth century timber-framed cruck-built thatched house with seventeenth and eighteenth century alterations

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II)
  • Listed Building (II) 1160042: THE COTTAGE

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (15th Century to 18th Century - 1400 AD to 1799 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) CRUCK HOUSE (15th Century - 1400 AD? to 1499 AD?)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (15th Century - 1400 AD? to 1499 AD?)

Description

GRADE II. HOUSE. C15-EARLY C16, AND C17, ALTERED C18. WHITEWASHED BRICK, THE LEFT BAY WITH FIRST FLOOR BAND COURSE. LEFT GABLE HAS TIMBER FRAMING; RIGHT GABLE IS PARTLY REBUILT IN WHITEWASHED FLINT BUT HAS AN EXPOSED CRUCK TRUSS. THATCHED ROOF, HALF- HIPPED AT RIGHT END, WITH PARTLY REBUILT [MORE](B1).
Additional source for identification of cruck: A.G. Taylor (B2). House recorded as "Rose Cottage, High Street, Bledlow" but presumed to be same property.

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC20224 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Wycombe District: Parishes of Bledlow &C.
  • <2>SBC23395 Digital archive: Vernacular Architecture Group. 2004 onwards. Vernacular Architecture Group: Cruck Database.

Location

Grid reference SP 77402 02578 (point)
Civil Parish BLEDLOW-CUM-SAUNDERTON, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

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Record last edited

Nov 17 2023 11:04PM

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