Library
LIBRARY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125817
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Library
- Statutory Address:
- LIBRARY, CHURCH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125817
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIBRARY, CHURCH 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:
- LIBRARY, CHURCH STREET
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 80707 03482
Details
SP 8003 PRINCES RISBOROUGH CHURCH STREET
9/162 Library (formerly listed as Fire Services Office) 21.6.55
GV II
Library, formerly a row of cottages, built as one house. C15-early C16, altered C16-early C17 and C19, restored 1938. Timber frame with whitewashed render infill. Ground floor front rebuilt in brick early C19, left gable rebuilt in brick C20 with crow-stepped top. Tiled roof. 1½ storeys, the upper storey jettied to front on beam ends. 4 bays. Irregular barred wooden windows: 3-light horizontal sliding sash to ground floor left, 4-light casement in bay 2, canted bay window in bay 3, long eaves-line dormer with row of 6 small casements in bay 2. Board door to left, C20 double doors recessed in right bay. Interior is open to roof with narrow gallery along S. jettied side. Centre bays originally an open hall, the central truss with chamfered arched braces to collar. Curved braces to flanking tie beam trusses on S. side, N. braces replaced C20. Curved wind-braces in roof. C17 wing to rear has timber-frame with brick infill in gable, and side walls rebuilt in brick. RCHM I p. 271 Mon.12.
Listing NGR: SP8070703482
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46433
- 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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