|
Date: |
|
Description: | The collection of 30 buildings is supplemented by 15 in store awaiting re-erection with the aim to represent as many different types of vernacular building as possible. The buildings are researched on being dismantled including the method of construction, any changes recording through photographs and drawings and held in the archive. Also a collection of books on the history of the built heritage of the Chilterns. The buildings include:- Arborfield Barn -Originally built circa 1500, re-erected in 1980, fine example of a cruck construction with the wattle walls, in oak and a plinth wall of flint; the roof is thatched with wheat straw; Astleham Manor Cottage Dates from the 16th century, brick one and a half storeys, 4 by 1 bays, tile roof, re-built mid 1990s and has an information point, library and offices; Thame Vicarage Room arrived in Thame, Oxfordshire, on the Great Western Railway on the 28th November 1896 as a prefabricated building from the Wire Wove Waterproof Roofing Company of London. Originally in the vicarÃ's garden, sold to the auctioneer who put it in his back garden in Aylesbury. External cladding of bitumen roofing felt reinforced with wire mesh and internal upper wall panels are paper covered cardboard; Wing Granary An 1820 granary used for storing flour, located behind 17 Vicarage Lane, Wing, Buckinghamshire, of oak and elm, clad with elm weather boarding, sits on 9 cast iron staddles, rebuilt 1979; Telephone Kiosk 1950s K2 restored by a volunteer in 1991 of cast iron from Walter MacFarlane Foundry in Glasgow; Blythe Road Pavilion is an 1899 Savings Bank from the grounds of the Post Office Savings Bank in Hammersmith, entirely in softwood, with an arcade structure supported on 4 posts on stone pads, slate roof, walls sit on a low plinth of brick; Borehamwood Cattle Byre was rescued in 1985 from Tile House Farm, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire and dating from the mid 19th century, when many local farms expanded their milk production to meet the demands of the London markets; Caversham Public Convenience was rebuilt 1987- 91 of cast-iron from the Saracen Foundry of Walter MacFarlane in Glasgow, purchased in 1906 for ã301, and was built primarily for the use of passengers at the Electric Tramway Terminus at Caversham Bridge, Reading in Berkshire; Didcot Cart Shed originally built mid 19th century was a cart and implement store on the ground floor, grain storage upstairs with access via an external stair, hippped end, frame of elm on a brick plinth wall; stone bases to the posts prevented cart wheels from damaging the timber, now has brick-making activity; Garston Forge rebuilt 1984, an 1860 original worked by the Martin family until 1926. Many of the bricks have the initials J C cast on them, indicating their production at John Chapman`s brick works at Bucknalls Lane, Garston. The hearth comes from a forge at Naphill. The floor is made of balks of timber where horses were shod. Outside, the circular cast-iron platform was used for putting on the metal tyres of wooden cart wheels; Glory Mill Store originally built circa 1919 and re-erected at the Museum in 1989, not open to the public, it is an example of storage building dating from earlier this century, and is 120 feet long and houses buildings waiting to be re-erected; Gorhambury Cart Shed built in the 19th century, re-erected in 1989, comes from the Gorhambury Estate in St Albans. The walls are clad with elm weatherboarding painted with coal tar, roof is slate and capped with red clay ridge tiles, a particular feature of the farm buildings on the Gorhambury Estate; Harpenden Well Head dates from the late 18th century and is from Upper Top Street Farm, Harpenden; Haversham Granary, built circa 1835, re-erected 1978 constructed with a hardwood framework with softwood, supported on 16 staddle stones to ensure good ventilation and to keep out vermin, now serves as toilet/baby changing facilities. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Newland Park
Gorelands Lane
Chalfont St Giles Buckinghamshire United Kingdom,
HP8 4AD | Telephone: | 01494 871 117 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4268 | Go to resource |
|
|