MANOR FARMHOUSE

MANOR FARMHOUSE, 1, WORLDS END LAND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1281120
Date first listed:: 24-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:: 24-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: MANOR FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR FARMHOUSE, 1, WORLDS END LAND

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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. 23, (1981)
'Records of Buckinghamshire' in Records of Buckinghamshire, , Vol. 11, (1919)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.