Monument record 0194201000 - DEYNCOURT FARM

Summary

Fifteenth century manor house with sixteenth century oriel window used as outbuildings in the early twentieth century before being demolished.

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Type and Period (5)

(Former Type) MANOR HOUSE (15th Century to Modern - 1400 AD to 1931 AD)
(Former Type) GUEST HOUSE? (15th Century - 1400 AD? to 1499 AD?)
(Former Type) BASE CRUCK HOUSE (14th Century - 1300 AD? to 1399 AD?)
(Alternate Type) CROSS WING HOUSE (14th Century - 1300 AD? to 1399 AD?)
(Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (14th Century to 15th Century - 1300 AD? to 1499 AD?)

Description

Remains of C15 Deyncourt family manor house, now outbuildings & 4 cottages. C15 doorway & window in 1 cottage, C15 timber roof & C16 oriel in outbuilding, which includes hall with trussed roof of 4 bays. (Full description) (B3-4).
All pulled down 1931. Some roof timbers in Buckinghamshire County Museum (B5-6).
Reassessment of buildings as early 14th century base cruck hall with 2 storey parlour wing at right angles to hall, and a late 15th century scissor braced lodgings range. By the the late 16th century an upper floor had been inserted into the hall and the lodgings range was apparently in use as farm buildings (B8-9).

Sources (6)

<3>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. pp106,107-109.
<4>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. pp323-324.
<5>SBC13367 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 1932 12 PP336-338.
<6>SBC1119 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER,1932.
<8>SBC5229 Unpublished document: Pauline Fenley. 1978. FENLEY MRS P DEC 1978 (SEE LETTER, NOTES, PLANS ETC).
<9>SBC15145 Article in serial: John Chenevix Trench & Pauline Fenley. 1981. 'Wooburn D'Eyncourt: A Lost Medieval Manor House', in Recs of Bucks 23 pp39-50. Vol 23.

Location

Grid reference	SU 90890 87780 (point)
Civil Parish	WOOBURN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire