17, 18 AND 19, HIGH STREET
17, 18 AND 19, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048494
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 17, 18 AND 19, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 17, 18 AND 19, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048494
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 17, 18 AND 19, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, 18 AND 19, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 17, 18 AND 19, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wallingford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU6082989488
Details
SU6089SE
11/99
09/12/49
WALLINGFORD
HIGH STREET
(South side)
Wallingford
Nos. 17, 18 and 19
GV
II*
Row of 3 houses, possibly originally shops with dwellings above. Probably early
C16 with later alterations. Roughcast, probably on timber framing; old
plain-tile roof; brick end stack to left. Basement. 2-storey, 3-window range.
C20 six-panel door to right of centre. Two 6-panel doors with architrave
surrounds approached by stone steps to left of centre. Basement window to
centre. 4-pane unhorned sash, with architrave surround to left. C20 twelve-pane
horned sash with architrave surround to right. Probably late C18 shop window of
24-panes with flanking half-columns having masks to lintel at centre. Jetty to
first floor, that to centre at higher level. 12-pane unhorned sashes with
architrave surrounds to left and centre. 12-pane horned sash with architrave
surround to right. Interior: cellar of No.18 noted as having stone quadripartite
vaulting of 2 bays, possibly incorporating re-used masonry from the priory
church. Ground floor of No.19 lowered. Arch braced truss to first floor front.
Nos.17 and 18 noted as having king-post smoke bay. No.17 as having evidence of
former cross-gable to street.
("Some Notes on the Domestic Architecture of Wallingford, Berkshire" by P.S.
Spokes in Berkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol.50, 1947; V.C.H. Berkshire,
Vol.III, 1923, p.519).
Listing NGR: SU6082989488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249262
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 519
Berkshire Archaeological Journal in Berkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 50, (1947)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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