4, 5 AND 6, WEST STREET
4, 5 AND 6, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280653
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 4, 5 AND 6, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 4, 5 AND 6, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280653
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 4, 5 AND 6, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, 5 AND 6, WEST 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:
- 4, 5 AND 6, 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 69525 34010
Details
BUCKINGHAM
SP6934 WEST STREET 879-1/5/181 (North side) 13/10/52 Nos.4, 5 AND 6
GV II
Shop and offices, probably formerly town house. Early-mid C18 with older origins, and C19 and C20 alterations. Flared headers in header bond with red brick details, hipped plain-tile roofs, brick lateral and internal stacks. T-plan. 2-storey, 9-window range. 6-panel door to right of centre approached by 2 stone steps. Moulded wood door surround framed by fluted Ionic pilasters bearing entablature with pulvinated frieze, dentilled cornice and pediment. 12-pane sash window to right of door with gauged brick, flat-arched head. C19 shop front to far right. Canted bay window to ground floor centre and blocked carriage arch to left of centre with segmental-arched gauged brick head now filled by 6-panel, part-glazed door and 12-pane sash. 12-pane sash windows to ground floor left and to 1st floor, all with flat-arched, gauged brick heads. Plinth, partly composed of limestone rubble and coursed squared limestone. Pair of cellar windows to far left with segmental-arched heads. Brick pilasters to either end of front, fine wave-moulded and dentilled brick cornice and panelled, stone-coped brick parapet. Roof is composed of a series of small hips. 2-storey wing to rear centre, timber-framed with rendered panels, possibly C17. 3-bay section to left (No.6) has good early C19 railing with spear finials and vases to standards. INTERIOR: No.6 has cellar, which seems originally to have been a kitchen; it has a fireplace. 1st-floor room with moulded wood cornice and fielded panelling. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Buckinghamshire: London: 1960-: 76).
Listing NGR: SP6952134021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377275
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, (1960), 76
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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