Monks Staithe
MONKS STAITHE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125814
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Staithe
- Statutory Address:
- MONKS STAITHE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125814
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Staithe
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKS STAITHE, CHURCH LANE
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:
- MONKS STAITHE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Princes Risborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 80580 03536
Details
SP 8003 PRINCES RISBOROUGH CHURCH LANE
9/156 Monks Staithe
21.6.55
GV II
House. Late C15-early C16, with C17-early C18 wing to rear. Heavy timber frame with brick infill, some infill with thin brick. Old tile roof. External chimney stack to right is of thin brick and flint with ashlar quoins and coping,rebuilt octagonal stone shaft, and small lean-to to front. Small C20 brick chimney to left. 2 storeys, 2 bays. C20 leaded casements: 2-light to ground floor of left bay, 3-light to both storeys of right bay. Door and C20 timber porch to right of left bay. C20 single storey extensions to left, part with balcony. Wing to rear has slighter timber frame with brick infill and lean-to extensions in angle. Interior: heavy floor joists, chamfered cross beam on small curved braces; chamfered upper truss with tie-beam on similar braces, curved queen struts, collar and clasped purlins; curved wind-braces;C16 fireplace of thin brick with chamfered depressed arch; winder staircase with some C16-C17 shaped splat balusters. Amy Johnson lived here. RCHM I p.270-1 Mon.5.
Listing NGR: SP8058003536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46427
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
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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