Building record 1292102000 - APPLETREE COTTAGE

Summary

Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century timber-framed house altered and extended in the nineteenth century

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1125783: APPLETREE COTTAGE

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Type and Period (1)

  • HOUSE (Built about 1600, 16th Century to 19th Century - 1500 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

GRADE II. HOUSE. CIRCA 1600, ALTERED AND EXTENDEDTO REAR EARLY C19. FRONT HAS TIMBER FRAMED UPPER STOREY WITH BRICK INFILL AND CURVED BRACE IN LEFT BAY. GROUND FLOOR, RIGHT GABLE AND REAR OF LEFT BAY REBUILT IN BRICK WITH FLINT PLINTH. LEFT GABLE PART TILE-HUNG. OLD TILE ROOF, CENTRAL BRICK CHIMNEY WITH REBUILT SHAFT, LATER BRICK CHIMNEY WITH C20 BOILEER HOUSE TO FRONT RIGHT CORNER. 2 STOREYS, 2 BAYS. PAIRED LEADED CASEMENTS TO UPPER STOREY AND GROUND FLOOR RIGHT, THE LATTER C20. 3-LIGHT CASEMENT TO GROUND FLOOR LEFT WITH LEADED LIGHTS FLANKING BARRED WOODEN LIGHT, C20 3-LIGHT LEADED CASEMENT TO FIRST FLOOR CENTRE OVER C20 DOOR. C19 2-STOREY BRICK EXTENSION WITH FIRST FLOOR BAND COURSE AT ANGLE TO REAR, WITH ADDITIONAL BLOCK, RAISED C20, AT FAR END. INTERIOR HAS TIMBER FRAMING IN LEFT GABLE WALL, CENTRAL CROSS WALL, AND REAR WALL OF RIGHT BAY; LEFT BAY HAS CHAMFERED SPINE BEAM, WIDE JOISTS, AND CURVED WIND-BRACE (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. p37.

Location

Grid reference SU 87623 97478 (point)
Civil Parish HUGHENDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 26 2016 10:35AM

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