Building record 1351200000 - Butlers Farm, Beacon Bottom

Summary

Pair of eighteenth century houses, possibly bodgers' cottages, used as a farmhouse in the late twentieth century.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1125732: BUTLERS FARM (DBC5211)

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Type and Period (4)

  • HOUSE (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
  • FARMHOUSE (20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
  • CARPENTERS WORKSHOP? (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) FURNITURE FACTORY? (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

Grade II. Pair of cottages, then farmhouse. Probably mid C18, altered. Flint with brick dressings, plain tile roof; external brick end stacks with clay pots; right hand a late C20 rebuild one storey with attic, 2 bays. Plinth with stepped brick band at top; brick quoins to angles and openings; central vertical strip; eaves band. Left bay has board door on left of 3-light window, each having segmental brick arch and band over. Similar window to right bay , but with original flat brick arch, and above it, on left, a small bricked up former window opening flanked by ends of tie-bars. Brick gabled attic dormers rising from eaves, of 2-light on left 3 light on right. C20 added brick outshut to right. Rear: original central outshut under catslide roof having 3-light window on its left and 1-light window to right. Left return has brick gable above tile offset with rendered timber posts supporting collar. Interior not inspected but left hand seen to have moulded vertical plank door at floor of boxed in stair. The building is reported to have been built as a pair of bogers cottages. In a state of disrepair at time of inspection (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC20224 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Wycombe District: Parishes of Bledlow &C. Added 13th March 1991.

Location

Grid reference SU 78716 95535 (point)
Civil Parish STOKENCHURCH, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Apr 15 2025 10:30AM

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