Markhams Court
MARKHAMS COURT, 1-12, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280952
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Markhams Court
- Statutory Address:
- MARKHAMS COURT, 1-12, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280952
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Markhams Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKHAMS COURT, 1-12, MARKET SQUARE
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:
- MARKHAMS COURT, 1-12, MARKET SQUARE
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 69630 33954
Details
BUCKINGHAM
SP6933 MARKET SQUARE 879-1/6/105 (South side) 03/12/86 Nos.1-12 (Consecutive) Markhams Court (Formerly Listed as: MARKET SQUARE Warehouse to rear of Nos.3 and 4)
GV II
Warehouse, formerly barracks. Early-mid C19. For the Bucks Yeomanry. Yellow brick in Flemish bond, hipped slate roof. Long rectangular range with attached stair and porch blocks to right side. 4-storey, 17-window main range. Front faces yard to north-east and has large central doorway with 4-panel, double-leaf doors, fanlight and round-arched head. Narrow 1-light windows to ground floor with short, segmental-arched heads. Slightly wider, 1-light windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors, all with chamfered brick surrounds and round-arched heads. Windows to ground and 1st floors either side of entrance bay are set in giant recesses with round-arched heads. Pairs of windows to entrance bay above door to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors and slightly smaller than the rest and more closely spaced. Storey band at 2nd-floor level divides front horizontally. 2nd floor windows are set in round arch-headed recesses. Chamfered brick eaves. 3-storey and attic stair block to right end, with single-slope slate roof and paired round arch-headed windows, behind 2-storey porch projecting in front with flat roof and canted corners, round arch-headed doorway to ground floor and 12-pane sash window to 1st floor with similar head; 4-panel door to 1st floor right side with fanlight and round-arched head. INTERIOR: stop-chamfered central open-well cantilevered stone stair from ground to 1st floors. Similar stairs to all floors in stair block. Both have plain iron balustrades and handrails. Some surviving gun racks.
Listing NGR: SP6962433959
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377213
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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