Building record 1323800000 - FARM BUILDINGS AT PARK FARM

Summary

Late eighteenth century farm buildings in West Wycombe Park

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  • Listed Building (II) 1310540: FARM BUILDINGS AT PARK FARM

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Type and Period (2)

  • FARMHOUSE? (Built about 1770, 18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
  • FARM BUILDING (Built about 1770, 18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

Grade II. Late C18. Flint rubble, red brick dressings, old tiled roofs. 2 storeys with 3 storeys either end of west front, brick floor bands, brick dentil cornice (B1).
Park Farm of c.1770, with three three-storyed polygonal towers flanking a three-bay centre originally open in an arch - a façade as of a house, not a farm. It was called 'Don Quixote's Castle' in 1781. J M Robinson attributes the farm to Revett (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>XYSBC3604 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1973. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: WYCOMBE DISTRICT: BOROUGH OF HIGH WYCOMBE. [Mapped feature: #11679 ]
  • <2>SBC19664 Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner & Elizabeth Williamson. 1994. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. pp736-737.

Location

Grid reference SU 83964 93955 (point)
Civil Parish HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13570)

Record last edited

Nov 29 2023 6:36PM

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