Description

HUNSTANWORTH B6306
NY 94 NE
(South side, off)
5/56 Buckshott Farmhouse
and byres adjoining

GV II

Farmhouse and byres. Probably early C17 with additions. Thin courses of sandstone
and limestone rubble with massive millstone grit quoins; ashlar dressings;
stone-flagged roofs. 2-storey, 2-bay older part. Lower 2-storey, 4-bay
byre on right with one-storey, 3-bay extension.

First build has 2 wide ground-floor C20 windows with concrete sills and lintels,
and 2 square first-floor windows with flat stone lintels and thin stone sills.
Chamfered square-headed blocked door in left addition otherwise obscured by
left wing; end chimneys. Right byre has partly-glazed boarded door at left,
with large irregular-block jambs and flat stone lintel; ground floor partly
obscured by C20 additions; 3 small square first-floor openings. Rear of older
part has very irregular plinth and quoins and is battered to one metre below
eaves; thinner wall set into this. Interior not inspected but blocked door
reported in former return gable wall.

Barn and one-storey addition included for group value.

C20 additions not of interest.

Listing NGR: NY9730749692

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26523104

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)