Library, Village Hall and Caretaker's Flat
LIBRARY, VILLAGE HALL AND CARETAKER'S FLAT, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214974
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Library, Village Hall and Caretaker's Flat
- Statutory Address:
- LIBRARY, VILLAGE HALL AND CARETAKER'S FLAT, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214974
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Library, Village Hall and Caretaker's Flat
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIBRARY, VILLAGE HALL AND CARETAKER'S FLAT, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
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:
- LIBRARY, VILLAGE HALL AND CARETAKER'S FLAT, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Claydon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 70052 26945
Details
SP 72 NW STEEPLE CLAYDON QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD (north side)
4/122 Library, Village Hall and Caretaker's Flat (formerly listed as School 25.9.51 (part of Public Library))
- II
School, now library, built 1656, the gift of Sir Thomas Chaloner. Extended to rear 1856 at expense of Lady Dunsany. School-master's lodging, now caretaker's flat, added to left 1841. Village Hall added to rear right-hand corner 1902, by Parker and Unwin for Edmund Verney. Brick, tiled roofs. School: thin bricks in English bond, plinth, band course over windows and former doorway, moulded eaves. Old tile roof with C19 bargeboards to right gable. Chimney stack to left has 3 square shafts set diagonally. One storey. Front has 2 cross windows to left with gauged brick heads, and keyblocks. Terracotta plaque inscribed "1656 Chaloner Public Library 1902" between windows. C19 gabled porch to right with painted C17 plaque commemorating founding of school re-set over door. Right gable has similar window with 2-light mullioned window over, and rendered square bellcote opening. 1841 Lodging is gabled to road with square bay window to ground floor and paired casement over. Village Hall in Arts and Crafts style has battered brick buttresses and elaborately hipped roof swept down over lobby and 3-bay open verandah to front. 3-light wooden mullion windows, 2 to clerestory, and 3 to ground floor with painted glass and benches with heart motifs below. Lobby to right has similar 2-light windows. Interior of hall has large inglenook fireplace with tiles, painted panels and benches with backs of carved panelling dated 1663. Similar panels to front of stage. School has fragment of C17 panelling. Cheque for £50 from Florence Nightingale set in stone plaque in rear room.
RCHM II p. 273 Mon.5.
Listing NGR: SP7005226945
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399973
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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