Description

SP 7420 QUAINTON THE GREEN
(west side)

8/68 No. ll (Magpie Cottage)

25.10.51

GV II

House. Dated 1763 on bricks, altered mid C19. Right side is of red
brick with gauged brick heads to ground floor openings. Front has
ornamental pebbledash with smoothly rendered and whitewashed
quoins and bonded surrounds to openings. Brick plinth. Old tile roof,
hipped to right. Brick chimneys. L-plan. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Old
paired leaded casements with pebbledash voussoirs. Central 6-panelled
door, top lit, in wooden architrave frame with flat wooden cornice
hood. Right side has 4 bays of similar casements, the second bay with
a 2-panelled door, and an early C19 extension to right. Phoenix fire
insurance plaque. Plaque at upper right-hand corner of front wall
records birth of George Lipscomb, Historian of Buckinghamshire, in this
house January 4th 1773.

Listing NGR: SP7462220155

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26597867

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)