1EW03 - Enabling Works Central AWHj Interim Report Historic Building Recording Glebe House, Oxford Road, Hartwell, Buckinghamshire

The scope, rationale, aims and objectives for historic building recording are set out in the approved Method Statement (Doc. No.: 1EW03-FUS-EV-MST-CS04CL18-000001), which provided the methodology for a level 3 survey in accordance with Historic England guidance (HE 2016). As specified in the Heritage Method Statement the works of HBR comprised � a detailed desk based assessment, through a comprehensive review and analysis of cartographic, photographic and other documentary and archival resources; � a full inspection of all structures preparation of fully surveyed and measured drawings including photogrammetric recording � full photographic record of the building � a written, illustrated, descriptive and analytical account of the buildings, their architecture, history and use. COPA was commissioned by Fusion to carry out historic building recording (HBR) at Glebe House, Oxford Road, Hartwell, Buckinghamshire, in relation to construction activities for HS2Phase One. Glebe House is a Grade II listed building located on the south side Oxford Road, c. 0. 6 km west of Aylesbury. Works of HBR were required to produce an analytical record of the buildings and structures prior to the start of HS2 related construction activities in the immediate vicinity. The recording covered a group of buildings including the principal Grade II listed dwelling as well as group of associated buildings and structures grouped into an open courtyard to the south-west of the house. The house is a modest villa constructed in the mid-19th century, at some point between the estate surveys of 1842 and 1866. The outbuildings include a Dairy, which may be contemporary with the house, as well as a Cow shelter and Cart Shed which appear to be of later 19th-century date. The building is located within the Hartwell Estate on land that had been enclosed in 1779 and is one of several properties constructed on the south side of Oxford Road during the mid-19th century. By 1881 the house was occupied by a market gardener, and it remained with this family until the 1920s when it changed hands; it then appears to have become a mixed farm of both fruit and pasture. Sometime in the late 1930s the farm became dairy farm in which use it continued into the 1950s, though aerial photographs still show the buildings surrounded by a sizeable orchard. The change in use of the farm from market gardening to dairy is reflected in modifications to the ancillary buildings. The house is an unusual building which was clearly designed to have an architectural quality. It would have been a relatively modest sized villa, albeit one of some pretension with good quality internal detailing including the slate staircase and slate flags at ground floor. The house was clearly intended to be a work of architecture rather than a merely functional building and may have been designed the architect Joseph Bonomi the younger who is known to have carried out design work for the Hartwell Estate.