Burnham House
BURNHAM HOUSE, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1160550
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Burnham House
- Statutory Address:
- BURNHAM HOUSE, SILVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1160550
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Burnham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURNHAM HOUSE, SILVER 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:
- BURNHAM HOUSE, SILVER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stony Stratford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 78758 40185
Details
1. 5135 SILVER STREET (South-West Side) Stony Stratford Burnham House SP 7840 1/87 12.10.54.
II* GV
2. Gable end to street with heavily pointed rubble extension. Main front faces north-west. Earlier house rebuilt in early C18 and extended later in the century. 2 storey 5 window front, brick with stone quoins, band over ground floor, plinth and part of moulded eaves cornice - the other part is similar but wooden, over the later half of the front. The early C18 front was 3 windows wide. and the 2 window mid C18 extension was carefully matched, apart from quoins of painted brick. The quoins of the former house were left in the centre of the new elevation. Thatched roof replaced by tiles at that time. Near flush framed glazing bar sash windows, one blocked, under flat arches. Ground floor has 2 three light bay windows with dentil cornice over reel moulding. Pilastered doorway below 2nd window from right - its cornice is extended to right hand window and further to right. The door has 6 raised and fielded panels. The elevation to the street has an attic window in the gable of the main part of the house and a lower gable in the rubble 2 window extension of 2 storeys to the left (former stables converted and heightened). Shallow open pediment over doorcase, flanked by glazing bar sash windows. Further slate roofed extension, with coach entrance, to south-east. The interior has a fine panelled room on the ground floor.
No 22 Horsefair Green forms a group with Burnham House and No 34 Silver Street.
Listing NGR: SP7875840185
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 45645
- 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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