Preston Bissett Conservation Area

PRESTON BISSETT CONSERVATION AREA Designated 16th October 1991

The `Y` shaped village of Preston Bissett is situated in rolling countryside three miles south- west of Buckingham and close to the County boundary with Oxfordshire. The village may be entered from one of three roads: from the Claydons to the south along Main Street; from Tingewick and Barton Hartshorn to the north along the northern part of Main Street; or from

S Playing Field Cottage

BM 96.83m

The Elms

Pond

97.1m

POUND LANE

The Old Rectory The

Elms Highfield

Church Farm Rectory White Hart Garden (PH) Bona Vista 100.0m Path Villa Cotswalls The LEYS LaurelsLANE

BM St John the Graveyard Ash Tree Baptist’s House 101.95m Church Pebble Old Barn Rise

Redwell Old Hat (PH) Ashridge

Preston Bissett POUND LANE Nursery School

BRYANTS

SCHOOL LANE YARD

The Bungalow Grant’s

LB Cott

TCB

101.5m THE SQUARE

Thorpes Farm Piglets

Rosemary Cottage

Coleman’s Farm

Chapter End House

Meadow Preston View Lavender Cottage

MAIN STREET TCB 100.7m Bissett The Gables

Nash Box Cottage Cottage

Forge Cottage The Forge Tanglewood

Tanglewood South Cottage

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Gawcott to the north-east along Pound Lane. All three approaches meet in the centre of the village at The Square where the three Listed buildings Thorpes Farm, Greystones and Bittersweet Cottage feature dominantly. All three buildings are two storey dwellings of coursed rubblestone construction but have contrasting thatch, tile and slates on their roofs.

Facing north, the view from The Square is dominated by the Parish Church of St. John the Baptist. The Church is a fourteenth century, Grade 11* listed building, incorporating some earlier twelfth Century masonry. It was extensively restored in the nineteenth Century. The setting of the Church is enhanced by the two specimen trees in the front of the Churchyard and the backcloth of trees along the boundary of the Churchyard with the Grade 11 Listed Old Rectory. Sited in extensively landscaped grounds at the northern end of the village The Old Rectory, although of Tudor appearance and style, was in fact erected in 1840.

Immediately adjacent the thatched Old Hat PH. and either side of Highfields, fine views can be glimpsed westwards down the slope towards a small brook which serves as a tributary to Padbury Brook.

Whilst the historic core of the village is centred upon the gently winding Main Street, where the old buildings tightly abut the roadside footpaths, a small area of Pound Lane is worthy of note. The area centres upon the two Grade 11 Listed properties The White Hart PH. and Pound Lane Cottages. Both of which are timber framed, thatched and have whitewashed brick and rubblestone walls.

December 2008