Steps House

STEPS HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1125135
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:
Steps House
Statutory Address:
STEPS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1125135
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:
Steps House
Statutory Address 1:
STEPS HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
STEPS HOUSE, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
West Wycombe
National Grid Reference:
SU 82987 94675

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/05/2014


SU 8294 9/91
963

HIGH STREET (North Side),
WEST WYCOMBE,
Steps House

(Formerly listed as The Manor House)

9.1.54.

II* GV

Unusual early C18 house. Colour washed brick plinth and ground floor with large coved plaster cornice; yellow brick 1st floor with red brick quoins and dressings. 2 storeys and attics, 4 double hung sashes in flush moulded wooden frames, ground floor fielded panelled shutters, 1st floor segmental arches. 6 red brick steps with plain wrought iron railing up either side of central 6 fielded panelled door with 2 light rectangular fanlight; surround of fluted Roman Doric pilasters carrying frieze and cornice. Coved ground floor cornice breaks forward slightly over doorway and carries a wrought iron lamp bracket and octagonal lamp. Central 1st floor dummy window, hipped old tiled roof with dentil and moulded red brick cornice. Dormer to west return elevation. V.C.H., III, p 135.
Nos 35 to 37 (consec), The Church Loft, Nos 45 to 54 (consec), Nos 56 to 59 (consec), Steps House, The Plough Inn, The Apple Orchard, The Old Smithy, West Wycombe Estate Office, Rose Cottage and Ness Cottage form a group.


Listing NGR: SU8298794675

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Legacy System number:
46082
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908), 135

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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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