Description

SU 89 SW WEST WYCOMBE RURAL CHIPPS HILL
(WHEELER END)

4/194 Chipps Manor (formerly
listed as Chipps Farmhouse)

21.6.55
II*

House. Dated IB 1733 in raised brick over door; late C16 rear wing.
Main block is of brick with flint and brick rear wall, hipped old tile
roof and brick chimneys to rear. 2 storeys and cellars, 5 bays. Front is
of vitreous header brick with red brick quoins and window surrounds. Plinth,
moulded and gauged first floor band course, moulded and gauged cornice with
alternating dentils and darts, moulded brick parapet with stone urns to
corners. 3-pane sash windows with gauged brick heads, the brick sills on
brackets with guttae. Central first floor window has shaped head and
shaped apron. Central 6-panelled door, renewed, in architrave frame, with
gauged head shaped over date figures, and wooden cornice hood on carved scroll
brackets. Later flint and brick walls to left-and front-of front garden, with
stone urns on corner piers. Right side has 2 matching bays of sash
windows, with cellar openings below; left side is of chequer brick with
off-set eaves and later wooden dovecote. Lower wing to rear has timber
framing with brick infill to upper storey, the N.W. side with arched
braces. Ground floor rebuilt in brick, old tile roof. 2 storeys, 2 bays
of barred wooden casements. Interior: 1733 block has contemporary
panelling and boxed cornices in rooms to ground floor and first floor
right, the lower room also having a contemporary fireplace and arched
china cupboard with shaped shelves and painted festoons on half-dome.
Central staircase with turned balusters and shaped scrolls to string.
Older wing has arched and ogee wind-braces, queen strut roof, massive
spine beam, and first floor fireplace with 4-centred arch of chamfered
brick.

Listing NGR: SU8032293738

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541615

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