Manor Farmhouse
MANOR FARMHOUSE, 1, WORLDS END LAND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281120
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, 1, WORLDS END LAND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281120
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, 1, WORLDS END LAND
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, 1, WORLDS END LAND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weston Turville
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8535910671
Details
SP 81 SE
5/346
25/10/51
WESTON TURVILLE
WORLDS END LAND
east side
No 1, Manor Farmhouse
II*
House. Late C15 hall altered C16 and later, now the east (kitchen) wing to an
early C19 house probably on site of solar. Red brick, slate roof with end
stacks, moulded brick eaves. 2 storeys. 3 bays of sash windows, sides 5 panes
wide. Centre 4 panes. Gauged brick flat arches. Central semicircular arched
doorway with deep reveals, 6 panelled door. Similar garden front with flat
arched door. East wing has one full height oak post to front, two to back.
Red brick infill, steep pitched slate roof, central chimney. Wide door to LH
to former cross passage, 1 bay of 3-light casements to RH, upper leaded, lower
segmental arched. C19 yellow brick stable attached to E end. Slate roof,
brick eaves with pigeon holes. Interior of east wing contains almost complete
C15 timber framed hall of 3 bays with finely moulded posts, (bases removed)
concave moulded capitals supporting moulded deep arch-braced scissors trusses.
Moulded wall plate, with traces of frieze of quatrefoil pattern removed earlier
this century. Moulded purlins, chamfered curved windbraces and chamfered rafters.
Framing for smoke louvre in western bay. Large chimney, 1st floor and ceiling
inserted C16 or C17. History: Possibly built by Sir Henry Colet (Lord Mayor of
London and father of Dean Colet of St Pauls) who bought the manor in 1483/4 (VCH
iii 109, Records of Bucks Vols XI, 1919 and XXIII, 1981).
Listing NGR: SP8535910671
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42922
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908), 109
Records of Buckinghamshire in Records of Buckinghamshire, Vol. 11, (1919)
Records of Buckinghamshire in Records of Buckinghamshire, Vol. 23, (1981)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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