Building record 1359000000 - SUNNYSIDE, MAIN STREET, GAWCOTT

Summary

Mid to late seventeenth century farmhouse, originally a late medieval timber-framed cruck-built house, with later alterations and extensions.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1282662: SUNNYSIDE (DBC4811)

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Type and Period (3)

  • FARMHOUSE (17th Century to Modern - 1600 AD to 1999 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (15th Century - 1400 AD? to 1499 AD?)
  • (Alternate Type) CRUCK HOUSE (15th Century - 1400 AD? to 1499 AD?)

Description

Grade II. Former farmhouse. Mid-late C17 with older origins, extended C18 and altered C19 and C20. Rendered over limestone rubble, slate roof, brick ridge end stack, ridge and left end stack pebbledashed. 2 storeys, 3-window range. Central C20 door, 3-light casement window to ground floor right, late C19 canted bay window to left. 3-light casements to 1st floor and 2-light casements to 1st floor left of centre. 2-storey wing to rear just right of centre, probably C18 and former outbuilding to left side of wing of 2 storeys, now part of general accommodation. INTERIOR: stop-chamfered spine beams. Room to ground floor left has late C19 painted slate chimneypiece and fitted cupboard opposite with glazed double-leaf doors to upper part which has semi-domed head and shaped shelves. Room to ground floor right has open fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer. To right side of fireplace exposed lower portion of former full cruck truss; probably the only surviving timber. Stone-flagged floor to ground floor room in wing. 3-light leaded casement window, now internal, to 1st floor rear left. Tie beam truss to former outbuilding (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC23498 Bibliographic reference: Department of National Heritage (DNH). 1994. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: BOROUGH OF BUCKINGHAM.

Location

Grid reference SP 68138 31888 (point)
Civil Parish BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2023 12:59PM

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