Building record 1312100000 - MOOR COTTAGE, DOWNLEY

Summary

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

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1161271: MOOR COTTAGE (DBC5631)

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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 to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. Projecting bay to front is dated 1723 on beam; rear wing C17 with early C18 half bay to right; altered and much rebuilt C19, refurbished C20. Mostly brick, the right bays with some timber framing in rear wall, the right gable partly of flint, partly rendered. Old tile roof; brick chimney, part rendered, to centre of rear wing. L-plan. 1½-2 storeys, 2½ bays. Right bays have raised dentil eaves and brick inscribed 'W. Hoskins 1810'; left bay gabled and projecting. C20 leaded casements in hardwood frames, those to ground floor right replacing bay windows. Door in C20 lean-to extension to right of projection. Interior has timber-framed cross walls with diagonal bracing, and shaped bracket to spine beam in rear left room. Included for group value (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC3985 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1986. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKS; WYCOMBE: PARISHES OF FAWLEY &C. p91.

Location

Grid reference SU 84791 95213 (point)
Civil Parish WEST WYCOMBE RURAL, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Aug 14 2009 10:11AM

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