Chesham Coachworks

Originally located to the rear of 16 and 18 Church Street, Chesham, this building was dismantled in 1989 to make way for a new road. Thought to have been built in 1847, it was possibly used originally for making and repairing wheels and agricultural items. It was a two storey brick building, 26' long and 17' wide, with a gabled roof of clay peg tiles. The central section of the first floor could be raised and lowered by a winch and chains, enabling carts to be transferred from one floor to another.

This shop, originally at 7 West Street Dunstable, is believed to date from the sixteenth century. It was a two bay timber framed building with a jettied front, originally built with wattle and daub infill panels and a clay peg tile roof. The front bay was used as the shop while the rear bay was an open hall. A stone fireplace was inserted in the hall in the late sixteenth century built of Totternhoe stone robbed from the Dominican Friary nearby. In the 1861 census it was "The Vine" public house. At the time of demolition it was Ellis Barber's Shop.

The cottage, originally at 8 The Croft, Haddenham is believed to date from 1835. It is a two storey cottage with an "L" shaped plan and with a peg tile roof. It is built of wichert clay (which is local to the area) with internal walls and floors of timber. The building consists of six rooms which include a living room, a parlour and a kitchen downstairs and three bedrooms upstairs, with a stable and a pigsty attached at the rear.

This crane was originally housed in a timber yard at Mentmore and comprises a fixed vertical post, supported by two wooden out-riggers. The post is mounted on a cast-iron base and is able to rotate. A wooden jib is attached to the post by a cast iron socket, and can be raised and lowered. A hand operated ratchet-winch, with brake, is attached to the post. A steel cable winds from this through a pulley on the end of the jib.

Now the emblem of Chiltern Open Air Museum, it was originally located on the west side of Watling Street in St. Albans. Built between 1390 and 1400, it was one of five barns built by the Abbey to hold produce from the Abbey farm. It took its name from the nearby leper hospital of St. Julian's. It is a five-bay timber-framed aisled barn, 81'6" long and 40'6" wide, with a central porch. It has a crown post roof with passing braces. It sat on a plinth wall of Totternhoe stone and flint with some Roman bricks. The original infill was wattle and daub, though it was weatherboarded at the time of dismantling. It has a hipped roof with gablets, covered with clay peg-tiles.

This building was to be demolished to make way for a new road and comprises a rear wing of two storeys, a front range of two storeys, and another two storey, three bayed building linking the front and rear buildings. Only the rear wing came to the Museum. The interior was originally undivided on the ground floor and was spanned by ceiling beams with arched braces. The building is believed to date from the fifteenth century but the east gable is of nineteenth century origins. Much of the ground floor framing has been replaced by brickwork, but enough remained to show the construction. The rear wing is the oldest part, the front range and linking building are believed to be post-medieval and the rear wing was probably built as a warehouse, possibly for storing cloth.

At the time of dismantling it was Stapleton's Tyre Depot, but it was believed to have been a bakery in the nineteenth century. This medieval timber-framed town house dating back to the fifteenth century has two storeys and originally had a jettied front. One end of the ground floor is a wagon way. A later extension was added to the rear, probably around 1500, giving a date for the front part of around 1450.