24, NORTHBROOK STREET
24, NORTHBROOK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290211
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 24, NORTHBROOK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 24, NORTHBROOK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290211
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 24, NORTHBROOK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24, NORTHBROOK 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:
- 24, NORTHBROOK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 47110 67355
Details
1. NORTHBROOK STREET 5127 No 24 SU 4767 SW 6/144 29.9.50
II* GV
2. Early C16, altered; known as 'Jack of Newbury's House'. Former part of a courtyard complex which covered the site of Nos 22 and 23. North facade to Marsh Lane retains 2-storey gabled end of main west range and part of lower 2-storey north wing. West facade to Northbrook Street refronted early C19 to form unified fenestration with the rest of the Jack Hotel (see No 23). Tile roofs with carved bargeboards. Timber framed with close studding. Tudor herringbone nogging to 1st floor and gable. Panels of modern brick infill to ground floor. Gable with jetties to 1st floor and attic with bracketted, moulded bresummers. Blocked window in attic gable. Five-light oriel window to 1st floor of gable with moulded mullions, and transom, and bracketted sill. West front of stucco with 2 recessed sash windows with glazing bars and modern shopfront. North return with C19 windows and blocked earlier openings. West range of 2 bays with Queen post trusses, moulded tie beam and purlins; plain wind braces. Central chimney stack of Tudor brick. Stone fireplace (covered up) in 1st floor front room. Ground floor^with moulded ceiling beams. John Winchcombe (alias Smallwood), the famous 'Jack of Newbury' was an early C16 clothier who had a great weaving and dyeing works behind his house. Henry VII was entertained here by Winchcombe. (VCH Berkshire 4, 130).
Listing NGR: SU4711067355
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 130
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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