25, HIGH STREET
25, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204194
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 25, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 25, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204194
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 25, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 25, 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:
- 25, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wendover
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8679207778
Details
SP 8607
569/10/253
21.12.67
WENDOVER
HIGH STREET
(South side)
Number 25
GV
II
House, at one time part of a single range, with No.27. C16 altered. Timber framed with brick infill and some refacing to ground floor. LH bay has close studding and plaster infill, below projecting 1st floor. Old tile roof, tall brick chimney. Restored timber framed gable over carriageway to LH, with a modern 2-light leaded casement. Built into flank wall in arch is a roughly shaped stone pedestal believed to be a stoup from a church. 2-storeys, 3 bays, 3-light mullioned and transomed leaded windows to centre and RH first floor and RH bay of ground
floor. 6-panel door to LH of centre, with small canted bay window on LH, with leaded glazing.
INTERIOR:Ground floor: front rooms, now one, have large fireplaces; 2 posts at right end have remnants of painting. C18/early-C19 dog-leg stair at rear with columnar lintel and wall-painting to adjacent wall and posts depicting coloured stylised foliage and repeat geometrical design. Principal and common rafters to roof. [RCHM I p.307 MON. 19 (part). F W Reader, Wall-paintings of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries recently discovered in Bosworth House, Wendover, Bucks, Archaeol. Assoc., 1934, pp77-97.]
Listing NGR: SP8679207778
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42827
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Reader, F W, Wall Paintings of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries Recently Discovered in Bosworth House, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, (1934), 77-97
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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