Building record 0072001000 - TYTHROP HOUSE

Summary

Seventeenth century country house with eighteenth and nineteenth century alterations and twentieth century restoration

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (I) 1159819: TYTHROP HOUSE
  • Listed Building (I) 6/322

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Type and Period (2)

  • COUNTRY HOUSE (17th Century to Modern - 1600 AD to 1999 AD)
  • (Former Type) MILITARY BUILDING (Modern - 1939 AD? to 1945 AD?)

Description

Dimensions - Width 0030 Length 0040 m
SOMETIMES CALLED KINGSEY (B1). ACCOUNT OF VIEW BY HENRY WINSTANLEY 1680 (B5).
GRADE I. EARLY C17 E-PLAN HOUSE, REMODELLED BY 1680. INTERIOR PLASTERWORK 1730'S. ALTERED EARLY C19 & RESTORED 1960s. HIPPED TILED ROOFS. 2 STOREYS PLUS DORMERS & BASEMENT UNDER EARLY C17 PARTS. BULK OF N OR ENTRANCE FRONT STUCCOED. [MORE] (B6).
Tythrope House was requisitioned and used by troops during the war (B7).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC14210 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN P395.
  • <3>SBC11718 Bibliographic reference: PEVSNER N 1960 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE P180.
  • <5>SBC6113 Bibliographic reference: HARRIS J 1979 THE ARTIST & THE COUNTRY HOUSE P103 (COPY FILED).
  • <6>SBC19924 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Bucks: Aylesbury Vale: Parishes of Ashendon &C. pp135-6.
  • <7>SBC22807 Article in serial: A. K. Wickham. 1950. Tythrop House in Records of Buckinghamshire 16. 4. p272.

Location

Grid reference SP 73950 07020 (point)
Civil Parish KINGSEY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 1 2018 9:32AM

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