1 & 2, SILK STREET
1 & 2, SILK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096095
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-2003
- List Entry Name:
- 1 & 2, SILK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1 & 2, SILK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096095
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-2003
- List Entry Name:
- 1 & 2, SILK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 & 2, SILK 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:
- 1 & 2, SILK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Waddesdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 74194 16710
Details
WADDESDON
341/0/10005 SILK STREET
17-APR-03 1 & 2
GV II
Pair of estate cottages. c.1880-99 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, probably by W. Taylor of Bierton. Red brick with tile hung first floor. Pitched tile roof with ridge tiles and wide brick corbelled chimneys with short pilasters to ridge. Arts and Crafts style estate cottages.
EXTERIOR: WEST elevation to Silk Street with advanced entrance porch to left above which a gabled semi-dormer resting on corbelled brackets and faced in roughcast between vertical timbers, with central 3-light oriel with tile roof. To left, ridge stack at far end. To right, small dormer resting on corbelled brackets with 2-light window. To centre of the tile hung first floor, a plaque with Rothschild badge, above which a ridge chimney stack. SOUTH elevation has 3-light dormer in tile-hung gable, with applied roughcast and timber to its small gable. To right, a 2-light window. Ground floor extension with pitched tile roof. 2 and 3-light windows under brick segmental arches to the ground floors. Entrance to one of the cottages is to rear.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: Nos. 1 and 2 Silk Street and Princes Gate Lodge, adjacent to Princes Gate, form part of the entrance on the approach to Waddesdon Manor (built 1874-83 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild by H.A. Destailleur) from the village of Waddesdon, which was substantially rebuilt by Ferdinand de Rothschild in the late-C19.
Nos. 1 and 2 Silk Street form a group with the adjacent Princes Gate (q.v.) and Princes Gate Lodge (q.v.). They also have group value with the other listed buildings in the village, particularly the similarly designed Nos. 93 and 94 High Street. This pair of Estate Cottages forms a component of the estate of the Grade I Waddesdon Manor (q.v.)
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490060
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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