Old Eagles Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Old Eagles Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- dusted-railing-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Eagles Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding, Main Street, Gawcott with Lenborough, MK18 4HZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 680 318
- Coordinates
- 51.98139, -1.01063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Eagles Farmhouse and the attached outbuilding is a former farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century, although it has older origins and 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with flared headers and has a Welsh slate roof with brick ridge and end stacks. It features a three-unit through passage plan, is two storeys high with an attic, and has a four-window range.
The entrance is a six-panel door located to the left of centre, surrounded by a moulded wood frame and topped with a straight hood supported by curly brackets. To the right on the ground floor is a cross window, while the left side has a 16-pane sash window. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows, all of which have gauged brick flat-arched heads. A high limestone rubble plinth is located to the right of the door, with a brick plinth to the left, a storey band, a bracketed wood eaves cornice, and stone-coped gables with kneelers. There are two hipped roof dormer windows featuring two-light casements.
To the right of the farmhouse is a two-storey, one-window wing that has a three-light casement window on the first floor with a wooden lintel. The former outbuilding to the left is a single-storey and loft structure made of red brick with flared headers and a 20th-century plain-tile roof. It has a blocked rectangular window on the front and a round arch-headed loft door on the weather-boarded left gable.
Inside, the farmhouse features stop-chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressumer. There is a small panelled room with a fitted corner cupboard that has shaped shelves. The large first-floor room includes a carved wood chimneypiece with veined marble slips, and the roof is supported by collar trusses with two tiers of purlins.
Local climate
Old Eagles Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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