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roadside, and is prominent in views. Constructed of square framing seen on neighbouring buildings, with a hipped thatched
panel timber frame, infilled with colourwashed plaster, it roof. Two eaves cut dormer windows to the frontage, and
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retains a 16 century stair tower with original window. ground floor casements. The building has a substantial 16 th
Opposite lies Ickford House (II), which provides a century chimney stack. To the rear a thatched catslide falls
contrast in terms of material and architectural detailing. almost to ground level. A substantial new build has replaced
The principal wing, which was extended or refaced in the the neighbouring cottage. It appears somewhat alien in the
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18 century, faces the duck pond and is of two storeys with street scene by virtue of its scale and building materials.
attic. This has decorative brickwork in the form of band On the western side of the lane, south of the Manor
courses. The subsidiary wing, facing the roadside, is earlier, House, lie two former agricultural buildings, now in
17 century and is timber-framed. It was refaced in red domestic use. The thatched weatherboarded Barn (II) has
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brick in the 19 century. only a tiny window on the roadside elevation, and the
In the grounds of Ickford House, and prominent in the steeply pitched low slung roof dominates by virtue of its
street scene and in views across the duck pond, lies White solid planes. Beyond a further barn, this with a timber
Cottage (II). This is one of the older village buildings, framed front elevation (probably decorative), the rest
vernacular, single storey with attic. It is currently being weatherboarded. This building sits low in the street scene,
rebuilt after a fire. This has a medieval cruck frame and with a half hipped tile roof. Later windows have been
rubblestone walls, colour-washed white. The thatched roof inserted into the ground floor. The front elevation relates
has a single eaves cut dormer to the front facing roof slope, visually to the New Manor House, with the repeating
and a central stack. The whole is enclosed by a low brick pattern of black timber and whitewashed panels tying the
wall, and south of Ickford House a weatherboarded and buildings together in the street scene.
tiled outbuilding, hard on the roadside, completes this The Close (II) terminates the vista down the lane.
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picturesque and tightly knit grouping. The house dates from the 17 century but was altered in
To the east No 5 Bulls Lane (II) is another timber the 18 century and now has a complex plan. Much of the
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framed cruck cottage, with a low sweeping thatched roof. building has been roughcast and painted, but timber framing
This is aligned gable end to roadside, set slightly back. remains visible in the north facing gable. Old tiled roof
South of Ickford House lie three extended cottages with dormers, and a multitude of stacks enliven the roof
which exhibit similar forms and plan. pattern. Substantial stone walls enclose the frontage.
Orchard Cottage (II) is set back from the road, with Manor Farm (II) is less visible in the street scene,
its main elevation glimpsed between the gap between tucked away where the lane becomes a footpath, behind a
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roadside outbuildings. This is a 17 century cottage, hedge. Late 17 century, it is of coursed rubblestone with
extended in 1977. One and a half storeys, of square brick dressings, two storeys with attic dormers. It has a
panelled timber framed walls with plaster infill. The old steep single-span roof pitch, with later additions to the rear.
tile roof is hipped, reducing its visual prominence and there There are extensive well treed grounds, and the building
are four dormers to the front roof slope with white painted is more prominent in views from the footpath across the
gables, quite regularly placed. The later gables are slightly fields to the south.
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larger in size. One 17 century chimney, one modern
chimney. The weatherboarded outbuilding to the front has Worminghall Road Area
recently been rebuilt, and plays a key role in the sense of
enclosure and the setting of this cottage, which relates Worminghall Road forms a linear spine through this historic
visually to the grouping described above. area. An offshoot of the road to the west accesses a cluster
Apple Acre, (II) lying to the south, is sited slightly of historic buildings and the conservation area extends
back from the road behind a cloud pruned hedge. This 17 th northwards encompassing development on the eastern side
century building is of timber frame under a hipped tile of the road. The historic buildings to the east of Worminghall
roof. Two storeys, with the roof plane unadorned by Road are set to the front of the plots and hard to the
dormers. The ground floor has been infilled with later brick. roadside. This pattern reflects the former field boundary
Window openings show no repeat patterning. The massive pattern in this part of the village.
brick stack indicates a lobby entrance type building, though The cluster of historic buildings close to The Rising Sun
the original doorway is now blocked. show a pattern of post medieval buildings on smaller plots
Lesters, (II) a later 16 century house, is set slightly with a tighter development plan. Buildings are generally
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back from the roadside, its front garden enclosed by a wall simple in plan form, and for the most part aligned to the
and railings. It exhibits the same style of square panelled timber carriageway.

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