Almshouses A to D (Consecutive)

ALMSHOUSES A TO D (CONSECUTIVE), MAIN STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1288449
Date first listed:
13-Feb-1984
Statutory Address:
ALMSHOUSES A TO D (CONSECUTIVE), MAIN STREET

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Date:
2001-09-25
Reference:
IOE01/05171/35
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© Dr W A Cooper. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1288449
Date first listed:
13-Feb-1984
Statutory Address 1:
ALMSHOUSES A TO D (CONSECUTIVE), MAIN STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
ALMSHOUSES A TO D (CONSECUTIVE), MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Middle Claydon
National Grid Reference:
SP 72001 25759

Details

SP 72 NW MIDDLE CLAYDON MAIN STREET

4/84 Almshouses A-D (consec)

- - II

Row of 4 flats, originally 6 almshouses. Late C17, altered. Vitreous brick in header bond, red brick window surrounds with gauged heads. Brick plinth, moulded stone eaves cornice. Hipped old tile roof, 4 brick stacks with minimal entablature tops. One storey and attic, 7 irregular bays. Central gabled bay has plain flanking brick pilasters with moulded caps and stone kneelers. Ground floor has 6 thickly barred 3-pare sash windows. 4 gabled dormers with C19 paired casements. Centre bay has 2 similar casements above pair of doors in single gabled porch. 4 other doors, all half-glazed. C19 porches with blue and white brick patterns to gables, wavy bargeboards and fishscale tiles. End walls chequer brick with square bay windows and dormers. Originally near church, moved to present site mid C18.

VCH IV p.33.

Listing NGR: SP7200125759

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Legacy System number:
399690
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908), 33

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Ordnance survey map of Almshouses A to D (Consecutive)

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