Building record 1308002000 - THE OLD CROWN HOUSE & ISABEL COTTAGE, SKIRMETT

Grade II. Two houses. Originally C15-C16, altered C17 and later. Externally rebuilt in flint and brick with dentil eaves, the front roughcast and whitewashed. Old tile roof, central brick chimney with off-set top. One storey and attic, 4 bays, the left bay a C19 extension. Left bays have C20 paired barred wooden casements. Third bay has C20 bow window and paired leaded casement above. All upper windows are in dormer gables. C20 board door between left bays, with flat hood on wooden brackets. Early C19 gabled extension projects infront of right bay. This is of whitewashed flint and brick with narrow dentil eaves, and has C20 casements and glazed door in left side. Other extensions to right. Interior: right bay has flanking cruck trusses, the blades terminating above the collars, and heavy longitudinal floor joists; stack with lintel dated 1618 is inserted between main posts of central spere truss; spere posts have shaped jowls; original purlins. (RCHM I p. 188 Mon. 24) (B1).
Felling date of 1463 obtained by dendrochronological dating of cruck (B2).
2 cruck trusses with curved blades, truncated above the collar, passing the collar but with no upper structure. Source: R.W. Evans, Buckinghamshire CC (B3).
Formerly The Late Crown and the Crown Inn until the early 1900s (B4).