Buckshill Bottom House And Barn

The property comprises a late 16th-century house with a barn, situated in Sarratt, Buckinghamshire. It was floored, extended, and heated in the mid-17th century, with further alterations and extensions occurring in the 18th century. The building is timber-framed with red brick nogging and a tiled roof. Originally a two-bay open hall, it was extended with a lobby entrance bay, a two-bay cross wing to the left, and a single bay to the right.

The garden front presents a two-bay hall to the right of the entrance. This section features a flint and brick plinth, exposed ground sill, a middle rail, wall plate, posts, and studs. It has four-light timber casements with leaded panes. To the left is a 17th-century entrance bay with a projecting, two-storey gabled porch featuring brick and timber construction, balustraded openings, and an oversailing first floor with crossing tension braces and a two-light casement. A 17th-century ridge stack, capped in the 19th century, sits on the same axis. The 17th-century cross wing to the left includes a cellar window and ground floor four-light and first-floor three-light casements; it also has a plinth, exposed framing with larger panels, a passing brace to a tie beam, and a rendered gable. A catslide roof covers an 18th-century brick and timber lean-to addition with a door and two-light casements. A three-light casement is visible on the return to the road. The bay to the right of the 16th-century hall has an 18th-century brick ground floor with an entrance and a three-light casement with cambered heads. The first floor displays exposed framing and a three-light casement. The entrance, formerly the rear elevation, has catslide roofs over 17th and 20th-century lean-to outshuts on the 16th-century bays, containing an entrance. The gable end of the cross wing has exposed framing, single-light casements, and a 19th-century external stack. A left bay is rendered with exposed studs on the first floor, alongside a 19th-century external stack. The right gable end from the garden is also rendered, with a first-floor three-light casement. A ground-floor lean-to addition links to the barn at right angles, projecting into the garden. The barn, dated 17th/18th century, was converted around 1984 to become part of a dwelling. It is timber-framed on a brick base and weatherboarded, with a tiled roof and three bays, including a gabled midstrey to the rear with inserted doors, windows, and a stack. A further three-bay weatherboarded lower outbuilding is situated at the end, away from the house.

Interior features include a ground floor stop-chamfered binding beam and lintel to the inglenook, old strap-hinged doors, an original stair behind the stack in the entrance bay, exposed framing, jowled posts, braces in the walling, clasped purlin roofs with windbraces. The barn has braces to tie beams, angled struts clasping purlins, and windbraces.