The City

THE CITY, 1 AND 2, WEST LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1125772
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:
The City
Statutory Address:
THE CITY, 1 AND 2, WEST LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1125772
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
The City
Statutory Address 1:
THE CITY, 1 AND 2, WEST LANE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE CITY, 1 AND 2, WEST LANE

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

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bledlow-cum-Saunderton
National Grid Reference:
SP 77564 02263

Details

BLEDLOW-CUM-SAUNDERTON WEST LANE SP 70 SE

1/54 Nos. 1 and 2, The City (formerly listed as The City) 21.6.55

- II

Pair of houses. C16-C17, partly rebuilt C19. C16-early C17 block nearest road is timber framed with brick infill, the gable with rendered framing. Front is partly rebuilt with some thin brick and some C19 white brick. Old tile roof half-hipped to road, with chimney of thin brick to right. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Left bay has paired barred wooden casements in gable, weatherboard lean-to and chimney to front left, and C18 staircase projection of red and vitreous brick with hipped roof and small window. Right bay has paired barred wooden casements and board door. Brick outshot to rear. Lower range to right is later C17 with some timber framing, the front rebuilt C19 in red and white brick with some flint. Old tile roof, off-centre chimney of thin brick. One storey and attic, 2 1/2 bays. 3 paired barred wooden casements to ground floor, another in gabled eaves-line dormer to left. Weatherboard shed to right. Interior: C16-C17 part has diagonal braces and wind-braces, and shaped rack over fireplace. RCHM I p. 56 Mon.8.

Listing NGR: SP7756402263

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
46534
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)

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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