Building record 1518100000 - 2-7 Rosebery Mews (Dairy Farm), Cheddington Road

Summary

Mid-nineteenth century dairy farm, built about 1850s-1860s and now converted to houses

Protected Status/Designation

  • Conservation Area: Mentmore Conservation Area

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Type and Period (2)

  • FARM (Built about 1850s-1860s, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) ESTATE BUILDING (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Converted to residential use from the estate Dairy Farm, c1850s-60s . Red brick with blue slate roof. Windows in warm grey/black finish dependent on property. Central projecting porch to 2 and 3 to front access road. Metal ventilators and plain chimneys on ridge. Raised entrance with timber braces with central timber feature on roof. No 4, 5 & 6 have porches to internal court. No. 6 has timber boarded facades to court above brick plinths built around c/1 columns. 7 has wide low gable end to court.
Significance: Farmstead buildings reflecting the origin as part of the estate dairy farm, altered with
conversion to residential, retains some external characteristics; part of a group of model farms built by
1879 and possibly as early as the 1850s.
Issues: The original uses of the buildings are no longer clear and the internal layout has gone. The
setting has altered with the change of use of the working farm to residential with domestic gardens and
planting. A local note building within the conservation area of Mentmore (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>XYSBC23698 Unpublished document: Aylesbury Vale District Council. 2019. Mentmore Conservation Area Review. [Mapped feature: #44887 ]

Location

Grid reference SP 90899 19591 (point)
Civil Parish MENTMORE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jul 20 2021 10:42AM

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