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APPENDIX Denham Conservation Area
The Pyghtle Yew Tree Cottage Cottage which can be glimpsed over the high
brick boundary wall. Two storeys to south side
but one plus attic with two tile-hung gabled
dormers in the catslide roof to the north. Main
cottage aligned side on to the Pyghtle with
single storey range at right-angles. White
painted pebbledash with pitched plain clay tiled
roof. Mixture of old sash and modern casement
windows. Age not known but in 1883 there
were three Yew Tree Cottages here and a
building is shown here on the 1783 and 1840
maps. Has appearance of late C18 – early C19
cottage.
Village 1 & 2 Rose Cottages Pair of pictureseque 19 th century cottages. Two
Road (north storeys with hipped slate roof. Stock brick -
side) each has gabled porch over front door. No. 2
has sash windows – no. 1 has casements.
Secluded position behind houses in Village Road
with long gardens. Shown on the 1840 Tithe
Map.
Village Outbuilding on Brick and timber building used as a
Road village green store/garage and the last vestige of a group of
houses and buildings which stood where the
green was created (Island Cottages). Red and
grey brick unusually in English bond. Brick
dentils at eaves. Fully hipped roof – old clay
tiles. Door of stained black timber. Bricks
scratched with graffiti. Stone plaque inscribed
“As a bee gathers nectar without harm to the
flower so let a wise man dwell in the village
Gautama”. This is a translation of part of the
Dhammapada by the Buddha Gautama.
Village The White House Large house, probably with C18 origins but
Road (south extended and altered. A building is shown here
side) on the 1783 map and the listed boundary wall is
C18. Formerly called the Cedars and appears
on the first edition OS map as Denham Cottage.
Comparison of the 1899 and 1932 O.S. maps
shows alterations in the shape of the buildings
and creation of a realigned driveway. Twostoreys
- white painted brick with interesting
roofscape of slate covered hipped and pitched
roofs. Set in spacious grounds next to the
Misbourne, with remains of a 19 th century
garden. The house can only be glimpsed from
Village Road and Ashmead and Cheapside Lanes.
Village War Memorial (to Designed by Francis Bacon – builders Henry
Road south of the Parish
church in the
churchyard)
Wilson & Sons, monumental masons of
Uxbridge. Erected 1919 and thus an early
example. Portland stone with marble
inscription tablets and lead incised names.
World War II inscriptions added. Maintained by
Denham Parish Council.
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Significant unlisted buildings