3, WELL STREET
3, WELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205288
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 3, WELL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3, WELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205288
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 3, WELL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, WELL STREET
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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:
- 3, WELL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckingham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 69597 33865
Details
BUCKINGHAM
SP6933 WELL STREET 879-1/6/151 (West side) 13/10/52 No.3
II
Formerly known as: No.3 Meeting House of Plymouth Brethren WELL STREET. Nonconformist chapel, formerly meeting house, now garage. Built 1726, enlarged early C19 and altered C20. Red brick in Flemish bond with limestone dressings to front, body of coursed limestone rubble, and hipped plain-tile roofs concealed by parapet to front. Rectangular plan. 2-storey, 3-window front. Wide central C20 garage entrance with double-leaf doors, flanked by windows with round-arched heads and raised stone surrounds with imposts. Small, leaded panes to heads in fanlight pattern. C20 three-light window below stepped stone sill of window to left. Sill of window to right has been cut by C20 glazed door, approached by 3 stone steps. Windows to 1st floor have small, leaded panes, raised stone surrounds with segmental-arched heads with key blocks and stepped stone sills. Partly rendered coursed squared limestone plinth. Central bay breaks forward slightly and has stepped stone 1st-floor string course; full-height brick pilaster strips either end. Hollow-chamfered stone cornice and stone-coped parapet. INTERIOR: now divided horizontally with floor incorporating remains of gallery round 3 sides. Early C19 former gallery staircases to front corners. Roof structure of original core survives complete. Front was brought forward 10ft in early C19 alterations, probably reusing earlier dressings in new front. Built for a Presbyterian, afterwards Independent congregation formed c1700. Last used as a meeting house by Plymouth Brethren who met on upper floor. (RCHME: Stell C: Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels & Meeting-houses in C England: HMSO London: 1986-: 6).
Listing NGR: SP6959533865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377246
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 6
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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