Building record 0208900000 - WOOD FARMHOUSE

Summary

Late eighteenth century farmhouse at Wood Farm, built with reused earlier fixtures and fittings from Boarstall Manor

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 42539: WOOD FARMHOUSE

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Type and Period (2)

  • FARMHOUSE (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
  • ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

C18 building containing some early C17 panelling & door hinges bought from elsewhere (B1).
Grade II. House. Built late C18 using some C17 materials from demolished Boarstall Manor. Red brick with some vitreous headers, chamfered stone plinth and quoins, moulded stone eaves cornice. Half-hipped old tile roof, rebuilt brick chimneys with stone caps. 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. S.E. front has stone mullion windows with arched lights, Tudor hoodmoulds and narrow wooden glazing bars, 3-light to ground floor, 2-light to upperstorey. Central C20 door with late C18 radiating fanlight in depressed stone arch with shouldered stone architrave surround and pediment. Rear and side walls each have 2 more irregular bays of C20 barred wooden or metal casements in flush stone surrounds with keyblocks. 6-panelled door to centre of rear has hollow-chamfered stone surround with moulded imposts and semi-circular arch with keyblock, now with C20 lean-to hood. Single storey extenion with garage projects from left bay of rear. Interior of house has early C18 bolection panelling in ground floor room to right, and tall dado of C17 panelling in entrance hall and room to left. RCHM I p. 326 Mon.10 (B4).

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. p326.
  • <2>SBC4536 Bibliographic reference: ELAND G 1923 IN BUCKS PP51-52.
  • <3>SBC10400 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1960. OS 1960 6-INCH MAP. 1:10,560.
  • <4>SBC19811 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury Vale: Parishes of Boarstall &C. p78.

Location

Grid reference SP 61756 09984 (point)
Civil Parish WORMINGHALL, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 13 2024 5:07PM

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