Building record 1302506000 - LACEY'S COTTAGE, MIDDLE COTTAGE & THE END COTTAGE, WHITELEAF

Summary

Sixteenth century timber-framed thatched house with seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century alterations and extensions, now three cottages.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1125792: LACEYS COTTAGE, MIDDLE COTTAGE AND THE END COTTAGE (DBC5271)

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (16th Century to 19th Century - 1500 AD to 1899 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (16th Century - 1500 AD to 1599 AD)

Description

Grade II. Row of 3 cottages. Early C17, altered and extended late C18, early C19. Middle Cottage has timber frame with one curved brace and whitewashed brick infill. Outer cottages are of flint and brick, part whitewashed, the left gable with remains of timber frame and plaster infill. Thatched roof, half-hipped to left, hipped to right. Brick chimney between left bays. 2 storeys, 3 main bays, that to right with thatched wing to rear. Paired barred wooden casements, larger to ground floor, the left bay with 2 to first floor. Similar single light between left bays, single leaded light to left, both to ground floor. Each bay has board door, the outer doors with segmental heads. Lean-to to rear (B1).
Badly damaged by fire on 2nd April 2016. Middle Cottage subsequently found to be 16th century, with Lacey's Cottage added in the 17th century and End Cottage added in the late 18th century (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC22140 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p94.
  • <2>SBC25432 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire Council. 2020. Informal Planning Officer Note: Lacey's, Middle and End Cottages.

Location

Grid reference SP 81853 04081 (point)
Civil Parish PRINCES RISBOROUGH, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Apr 9 2021 7:05PM

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