Long Crendon Courthouse is a 15th-century two-storeyed timber frame building located in Aylesbury

Aylesbury

Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire in South East England. However the town also falls into a geographical region known as the South Midlands an area that ecompasses the north of the South East, and the southern extremities of the East Midlands...

, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

, England

England

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, and now a National Trust

National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

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 property.

It is believed that the building was used as a wool

Wool

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 store before serving to house manorial courts, which were held here from the reign of Henry V

Henry V of England

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 until the reign of Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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.

The ground floor (which is now let out as a flat) was the village poor house.

External links

• Long Crendon Courthouse information at the National Trust