Highfields, Buerton
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Highfields is a small country house in the civil parish of Buerton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.{{NHLE |num= 1330162|desc= Highfields, Buerton|access-date= 27 March 2012|mode=cs2}}
The house is dated 1615. It was built for the Dod family and additions were made in 1750 by William Baker, and again in 1897. It is timber-framed on an ashlar plinth with rendered infill and a plain tiled roof. The house consists of two storeys with an attic. The front elevation has five bays which are symmetrically disposed with projecting gabled wings on both sides. Both floors have close-studded walling with a middle rail. The first floor is jettied, as are the gables of the two lateral wings.
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- {{Citation | last = de Figueiredo | first = Peter | last2 = Treuherz | first2 = Julian | year = 1988 | title = Cheshire Country Houses | publication-place = Chichester | publisher = Phillimore | page = [https://archive.org/details/cheshirecountryh0000defi/page/241 241] | isbn = 0-85033-655-4 | url = https://archive.org/details/cheshirecountryh0000defi/page/241 }}
- {{Citation | last = Hartwell | first = Clare |last2 = Hyde | first2 = Matthew |last3 = Hubbard | first3 = Edward | author3-link = Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) | last4 =Pevsner | first4 =Nikolaus | author4-link =Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title = Cheshire | publisher =Yale University Press| year =2011| orig-year=1971| location =New Haven and London| page = 119| isbn =978-0-300-17043-6 }}
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Category:Houses completed in 1615
Category:Grade I listed buildings in Cheshire
Category:Country houses in Cheshire
Category:Grade I listed houses
Category:Timber framed buildings in Cheshire
Category:1615 establishments in England
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