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

• Wikidata Q26597867

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Recommended Books

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