Building record 1309700000 - TURVILLE HEATH HOUSE

Summary

Seventeenth century timber-framed house with eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century alterations and extensions

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1310392: TURVILLE HEATH HOUSE (DBC5731)

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to Modern - 1600 AD to 1999 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. 2 C17 bays to left, extended and refronted early-mid C19, further C19-C20 extensions to right and rear. Original rear wing probably C18. Colourwashed brick and render; slate roofs, hipped over main block of 4 bays to right. C17 brick chimney with 3 grouped shafts between left bays. Other chimneys also brick. Original rear wing is of flint and brick. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Left bay is slightly lower and has 3-pane sash windows. 3 centre bays formed early-mid C19 double fronted facade and have plain pilasters between bays, canted bay windows flanking door, and 4-pane flanking 3-pane sashes to first floor. Door is half- glazed and has rectangular fanlight and re-sited wooden porch with slender Doric columns and cornice hood from Eton. Matching bay added to right. Interior: some traces of timber framing in left bays, upstairs fireplace with chamfered 4-centred plaster arch in left bay; some early- mid C18 panelling in upper and lower rooms to left bay; chamfered spine beam with bar stops and stop-chamfered joists in adjacent bay; C17 staircase, probably re-sited, with rounded handrail and shaped splat balusters (B1).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC3985 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1986. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKS; WYCOMBE: PARISHES OF FAWLEY &C. p71.
  • <2>SBC23285 Bibliographic reference: Wycombe District Council. 1999. Turville Heath Conservation Area Character Survey.

Location

Grid reference SU 74560 91186 (point)
Civil Parish TURVILLE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Aug 9 2021 4:57PM

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