Description

SO 37 SE
12/10
21.3.68

BUCKNELL C.P.
Bucknell House
(formerly listed as Old Vicarage)

II

Shown on O.S. map as Vicarage.
Vicarage, now house. Early C19 with later additions and alterations. Red
brick, formerly colourwashed; low-pitched hipped slate roofs with wide spreading
eaves and tall end stacks to main block. Main range of 3 bays with 3-bay
range projecting to right and one-bay range set back to left. 2 storeys.
Glazing bar sashes with gauged heads, those to ground floor of main range
in segmental-arched recesses; reduced proportions to centre and right on first
floor and small casement in angle with right range. Central entrance; C19
half-glazed door with panelled reveals and shutters under contemporary wooden
Doric porch with slender columns and triglyphs and metopes to entablature.
Rear elevation: main range has 4 windows with 2-bay range (rear of left range)
slightly projecting to right. Interior. Oak staircase to right of entrance
hall has wreathed handrail with turned balusters and open string. Original
6-panel doors throughout and marble fireplace to rear left room. According
to the owner (July 1986) the house was built in 1815.

Listing NGR: SO3550573469

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26306670

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)