Hambleden

Hambleden is a house that was originally a pair of cottages, dating from the late 16th century and mid 17th century, with extensions added in the mid 20th century. The building is timber-framed and rendered, featuring a half hipped thatched roof with a decorated ridge. It has an internal chimney-stack with a rebuilt shaft and mid 20th century casement windows throughout, including four eyebrow dormers.

The oldest part of the house, located to the south of the chimney-stack, consists of three bays of plain 16th century framing, which includes the original roof timbers such as clasped purlins, principal rafters, and curved windbraces connecting the principals to the purlins. In the upper part of the south gable, there are two complete five-light mullioned windows, which likely had diamond-shaped mullions originally but have been modified for later glazing. Between these two windows is a 20th century casement window.

To the north of the chimney-stack, the ground floor room features a main beam with scroll-stops. The basic structure of the house was likely a two-cell end-chimney type that was extended into a three-cell building in the 17th century. By the 19th century, it had been divided into two cottages, separated by the chimney-stack, but it was restored back into a single house from a semi-ruinous condition.