Building record 1301101000 - ALSCOT FARMHOUSE

Summary

Seventeenth century timber-framed farmhouse at Alscot Farm, with eighteenth and nineteenth century alterations.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1159280: ALSCOT FARMHOUSE

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Type and Period (3)

  • FARMHOUSE (17th Century to 19th Century - 1600 AD to 1899 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. C17, altered mid C18 and C19. Timber frame with C17 brick infill to right gable. Front and left gable rebuilt in brick, front ground floor in mid C18 red and vitreous chequer brick with first floor band course, remainder C19 brick. C20 interlocking tile roof, chimney with paired shafts of thin brick between right bays, C19 brick chimney to front left. 2 storeys, 3 bays and lobby entry. Wooden casements with single horizontal glazing bars, 3-light to first floor and ground floor left, 4-light to ground floor right bays. Ground floor windows have gauged brick heads. C20 gabled brick porch with half-glazed door between right bays. C19 lean-to to rear. Interior shows timber framing in original rear wall and partitions and has chamfered spine beams in right bays and stop- chamfered spine in left bay. Old winder staircase in line with chimney. Fireplace in right bay has shallow depressed arch of chamfered brick (B1).
Buildings file dated Jan 1991 (1 file and 8 photographs) held at NMR (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC22140 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p59.
  • <2>SBC23358 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2006. NMR Buildings Reports. BF109950.

Location

Grid reference SP 80300 04462 (point)
Civil Parish PRINCES RISBOROUGH, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Apr 15 2009 6:25PM

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