Building record 1503500000 - Estate Yard, Queen Street, Waddesdon

Agricultural barns arranged around four sides of a square to create an estate yard. Round open
sided timber building with thatched roof forming central focus to yard. Buildings single storey in
height, constructed of brick with tiled roof and decorative ridge tiles. Articulated with wall tiles and
pictorial plaque above archway at north-western end of arch. Buildings now used for estate office
and have undergone some alterations, but nevertheless retain their essential utilitarian character,
characterised by relatively blank elevations and plan roof forms.
Estate complex is particularly prominent along the western side of High Street as it exits Waddesdon.
The blank elevations of these utilitarian buildings stepping down in level following the falling gradient
of the land is visually striking. Key features of this elevation are the steeply pitched gabled roof
punctuated with regularly positioned gabled dormers, the apex of which contain vertical strip panels
of pebbledash divided by applied timber panels painted in the Rothschild oxblood red paint.
Regularly positioned blank windows articulate the road elevations.
This complex of buildings make a strong visual statement and are significant because of their
utilitarian character, their history and their present and former role in within the running of the
Waddesdon estate. Local Heritage Asset in conservation area (1).