The Villiers Hotel
THE VILLIERS HOTEL, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281153
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Villiers Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE VILLIERS HOTEL, CASTLE STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281153
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Villiers Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE VILLIERS HOTEL, CASTLE 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:
- THE VILLIERS HOTEL, CASTLE 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 69535 33963
Details
BUCKINGHAM
SP6933 CASTLE STREET 879-1/6/37 (North side) 03/04/73 The Villiers Hotel (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE STREET (North side) The Swan and Castle Hotel)
GV II
Inn, now hotel. Early-mid C19 with older origins and C20 alterations and extensions. Stuccoed over stone and brick, slate roof, brick ridge and end stacks. U-plan. 3-storey, 4-window range. C20 door to right of centre with entablature hood on console brackets. Carriageway to far left with pilastered surround bearing thin entablature. Tripartite windows to ground floor either side of door with 12-pane sashes of similar size, pilastered outer surround bearing entablature, plain sill with brackets either end. Similar windows to 1st floor above and 12-pane sash above carriageway with similar surround. 16-pane sashes to 2nd floor with moulded surrounds and plain sills with brackets either end. Plinth and 2nd floor storey band interrupted by cornices of a 1st floor window surrounds. Deep bracketed eaves. Inside right wall within carriageway is of coursed squared limestone. 2-storey and attic wing to rear right, pebbledashed with dentilled brick eaves and plain-tile roof with 3 hipped roof dormer windows. 2-storey wing to left inside carriageway, of red brick in Flemish bond with plain-tile roof. Ground floor formerly coach-houses. Pair of 24-pane sashes to 1st floor with slightly cambered arched heads. Further slightly lower 2-storey, 1-window extension with similar sash to 1st floor. INTERIOR: main range has narrow open-well staircase with scrolled tread end, and ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail. Formerly the Swan and Castle Hotel and before that, until 1814, known as the White Swan.
Listing NGR: SP6953733967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377138
- 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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