Building record 1311900000 - DOWNLEY FARM COTTAGE, DOWNLEY

Summary

Late seventeenth to early eighteenth century timber-framed house with eighteenth to nineteenth century alterations and extensions.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1310185: DOWNLEY FARM COTTAGE (DBC5726)

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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. Late C17-early C18, altered and extended to rear later C18 and C19. Whitewashed brick to front with dentilled first floor band course, and rendered plinth; brick gables, the left part pebbledashed, the right part weatherboarded; brick and flint rear extensions. Old tile roofs, central brick chimney. 2 storeys, 2 bays. 3-light barred wooden casements, those to ground floor with segmental arches, the lower left window replaced C20. Central C20 board door. C20 3-light wooden casements in right gable. Rear bays are of different C19 builds, the left hipped with dentil eaves and some flint, the right gabled. Interior has some traces of timber framing (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC3985 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1986. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKS; WYCOMBE: PARISHES OF FAWLEY &C. p90.

Location

Grid reference SU 84764 95166 (point)
Civil Parish WEST WYCOMBE RURAL, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Aug 14 2009 9:27AM

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