40 and 42, High Street
40 and 42, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200394
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 40 and 42, High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 40 and 42, High Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200394
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 40 and 42, High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40 and 42, High 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:
- 40 and 42, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newport Pagnell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 87662 43951
Details
SP 84 SE
1/10001
NEWPORT PAGNELL
HIGH STREET (north side)
Numbers 40 and 42 (even)
GV
II
Shops with accommodation above. C17, possibly with some earlier work; remodelled and partly rebuilt in the early C19 and altered in the C20. Timber-framed partly rebuilt in
Flemish-bond red brick and partly rendered. Slate roofs with gabled ends and deep eaves, No.42 on left with bracketed soffit. Brick axial and gable-end stacks.
PLAN: No.40 on right is a deep narrow C17 range with what might be earlier framing in the rear wing. No.42 on left is on wider plot and largely rebuilt in circa 1835.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, 3:1 window ranges. No.40 on right rendered, first floor large canted bay window with sixteen-pane sash and four-pane side-lights and sixteen-pane second floor sash. No.42 on left has three windows on first and second floors with flat brick arches and later four-pane sashes. Circa late C19 shop fronts with C20 fascia applied over the top. At rear No.42 on right has tall narrow early C19 extension and on left; No.40 has timber-framed rear wing with brick infill, partly rebuilt in brick and with some stone rubble at base; C19 casement and sash windows and C17 hipped dormer with two-light casement with leaded panes.
INTERIOR: No.40 first front room has plaster ceiling cornice with cyma reversa and recta mouldings and two-panel door. Chamber above has timber framing exposed in partition, two-panel door and cast-iron grate. Rear wing has chamfered axial beams and two half-glazed doors; first floor has chamfered axial beams with hollow step stops and two-panel door; purlins exposed in attic chambers and truss in lower rear range of wing,its tie-beam apparently sooted on the north side. No.42 has cast-iron columns supporting shop, C19 staircase with elliptical arches on landings, two-panel doors and panelled and glazed door with crown glass.
Listing NGR: SP8766043952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350335
- 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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