Avenue House and Barracks House, Attached Walls, Gates, Gate Piers and Outbuildings
AVENUE HOUSE AND BARRACKS HOUSE, ATTACHED WALLS, GATES, GATE PIERS AND OUTBUILDINGS, 12, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205601
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Avenue House and Barracks House, Attached Walls, Gates, Gate Piers and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- AVENUE HOUSE AND BARRACKS HOUSE, ATTACHED WALLS, GATES, GATE PIERS AND OUTBUILDINGS, 12, WEST STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-02-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/08130/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205601
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Avenue House and Barracks House, Attached Walls, Gates, Gate Piers and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVENUE HOUSE AND BARRACKS HOUSE, ATTACHED WALLS, GATES, GATE PIERS AND OUTBUILDINGS, 12, WEST STREET
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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:
- AVENUE HOUSE AND BARRACKS HOUSE, ATTACHED WALLS, GATES, GATE PIERS AND OUTBUILDINGS, 12, WEST 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 69264 34032
Details
BUCKINGHAM
SP6934 WEST STREET 879-1/5/185 (North side) 03/04/73 No.12 Avenue House & Barracks House, attached walls, gates, gate piers & outbuildings (Formerly Listed as: WEST STREET (North side) No.12 The Barracks House and Avenue House)
II
Former barracks now pair of houses. Built 1802 for Marquis of Buckingham, altered C20. Coursed squared limestone, 2-span and lean-to Welsh slate roofs, brick end and ridge stacks. Double-depth plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Elevation facing West Street has symmetrical composition of 3-bay centre flanked by 1 storey and attic wings under long, lean-to roofs. Central block has 9-pane sash windows to ground and 1st floors with flat-arched heads. Wings have similar windows to ground floor innermost and narrower, 6-pane sashes outermost, and a sash window to attic storeys with round-arched head. Wings have further, recessed bay under the same roof either end and flat-topped roof dormer windows. Tall plinth, storey band to central block only, which breaks forward slightly and has hollow-chamfered wood eaves to wings. Elevation facing yard to rear has wide central panelled door with square glazed top lights, moulded wood surround, flat-arched head and straight hood on curved brackets. Panelled door to right of centre and to far left and right, and C20 double-leaf plank doors to left of centre giving access to store. Fenestration similar to street elevation. High attached walls enclose long narrow yard to rear of dwellings and join house to single-storey outbuilding running full length of residential range. Walls are of coursed limestone rubble, stone-coped, and are interrupted by red brick gatepiers with stepped stone caps at either end of yard; tall double-leaf timber gates with wickets. Outbuilding, formerly partly stabling is timber-framed with red brick panels in stretcher bond and lean-to slate roof. Sides and rear walls continue those enclosing yard and rise above outbuilding and have stone coping. 9-bay roof to outbuilding with tie beam trusses. Houses either end of residential block have spinal staircases rising in long straight flights between walls from round arch-headed opening and are lit by the roof dormers. The barracks, built at sole expense of 1st Marquis of Buckingham, housed the Royal Bucks Militia, and later, Royal Bucks Hussars. Main residence housed the Adjutant. Store formerly housed a 'Gatling' gun. (Harrison JT: Historical Buckingham: London and Buckingham: 1909-: 77).
Listing NGR: SP6926434032
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377279
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harrison, J T, Historical Buckingham, (1909), 77
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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