18 AND 19, CASTLE STREET
18 AND 19, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281180
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 19, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 18 AND 19, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281180
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 19, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18 AND 19, 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:
- 18 AND 19, 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 69542 33913
Details
BUCKINGHAM
SP6933 CASTLE STREET 879-1/6/33 (South side) Nos.18 AND 19
GV II
Pair of houses in one building, now flats, shop and restaurant. Late C18, altered 1889 when made into store, and C20 when re-divided. Pebbledashed render over brick with cemented dressings, slate roof and rendered ridge and end stacks. Double-depth plan. 3-storey, 6-window range. 6-panel doors to far left and far right either end of 1889 shop front. Both have rectangular fanlights of differing patterns, panelled reveals, and pilastered wood surrounds. Continuous moulded cornice extends over doors and shop front with pediment to central bay and timber balcony with turned balusters. Pair of tripartite sash windows to 1st floor right of centre and 2nd floor with moulded wood surrounds. Cemented decoration of rusticated quoins above ground floor level, square panel between tripartite sashes, large central panel framing monogram with initials V A and cartouche above bearing date 1889. Deep, bracketed wood eaves cornice. Formerly Vyles, 'the nearest thing to a department store the town has ever had'. (Birch C: Buckingham - The Town and District In Camera: 1986-: 24).
Listing NGR: SP6954633909
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377134
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Birch, C, Buckingham The Town and District in Camera, (1986), 24
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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