Magpie Cottage

Magpie Cottage is a house dated 1763 on the bricks, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. The right side of the building is constructed from red brick, featuring gauged brick heads above the ground floor openings. The front has ornamental pebbledash, with smoothly rendered and whitewashed quoins and bonded surrounds around the openings. There is a brick plinth and an old tile roof that is hipped to the right, along with brick chimneys. The house is in an L-plan layout, two storeys high with three bays. It has old paired leaded casements with pebbledash voussoirs. The central entrance consists of a six-panelled door that is top lit, framed by a wooden architrave and topped with a flat wooden cornice hood. The right side features four bays of similar casements, with the second bay containing a two-panelled door and an early 19th-century extension to the right. There is a Phoenix fire insurance plaque on the building, and a plaque at the upper right-hand corner of the front wall notes that George Lipscomb, the Historian of Buckinghamshire, was born in this house on January 4th, 1773.