Building record 1297000000 - FERNS COTTAGE, GREAT HAMPDEN

Summary

Seventeenth to early eighteenth century timber-framed thatched house with nineteenth century extension and alterations.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1125891: FERNS COTTAGE (DBC5371)

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to 19th Century - 1600 AD to 1899 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. C17-early C18, partly rebuilt and extended C19. W bays to left have timber frame with rendered infill to rear, roughcast over timber framing in left gable, and front rebuilt in brick. C19 brick bay to right. Half-hipped thatch roof, rebuilt brick chimney between right bays, C20 brick chimney to right. 1½ storeys, 3 bays. Left bays have paired leaded casements, those to ground floor with altered cambered heads, those above in gabled eaves-line dormers with thatch swept round. Similar first floor window to right. Ground floor of right bay has single C20 light to left, and 3-light leaded casement with decoratively cambered brick head. C20 brick porch with half-hipped thatch roof between left bays has C20 door and flat wooden hood. Weatherboard shed to left. Old board door and leaded casements to rear. Interior has timber frame in partition between left bays (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC22140 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p19.

Location

Grid reference SP 83959 01797 (point)
Civil Parish GREAT AND LITTLE HAMPDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Apr 14 2009 12:29PM

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