Aylesbury Literary Club at Pegatty's Restaurant and Tea Rooms
AYLESBURY LITERARY CLUB AT PEGATTY'S RESTAURANT AND TEA ROOMS, 11, TEMPLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319243
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Aylesbury Literary Club at Pegatty's Restaurant and Tea Rooms
- Statutory Address:
- AYLESBURY LITERARY CLUB AT PEGATTY'S RESTAURANT AND TEA ROOMS, 11, TEMPLE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319243
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Aylesbury Literary Club at Pegatty's Restaurant and Tea Rooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- AYLESBURY LITERARY CLUB AT PEGATTY'S RESTAURANT AND TEA ROOMS, 11, TEMPLE 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:
- AYLESBURY LITERARY CLUB AT PEGATTY'S RESTAURANT AND TEA ROOMS, 11, TEMPLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aylesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 81853 13761
Details
The following building shall be added:-
SP 8113 NE TEMPLE STREET (north-east side) 1/310 No 11 (Aylesbury Literary Club at Pegatty's Restaurant and Tea Rooms)
GV II
Library and Reading Room, now restaurant and literary club. 1879-80 for Lionel Nathan de Rothschild by George Devey; extended 1903; later C20 alterations. Brick, pebble dashed and painted; plain tile roof; brick stacks. 2 storeys, part with attic; 4 bays, the 2 on left added 1903. Plinth; modillion eaves cornice. Moulded wooden mullion and transom windows with segment-headed central lights, apron panels, and cornices on ground floor; windows of 2 left bays have leaded glazing, those of right bay have late C20 replacement glazing. Right-hand bay has foundation stone dated 1879, 2-storey oriel window; rusticated pilasters to 1st floor; and recessed gable with blocked attic window, decorative barge boards and pendant finial. Bay to left, slightly set back and of same date has entrance: step up to late C20 double door with fanlight in bolection-moulded architrave surmounted by broken pediment and old iron lantern; above door is architraved and corniced recess with initials "NR" enclosed by wreath bearing the motto, "Concordia, Industria, Integrita". The 2 left-hand bays have foundation stone dated 1903; a one-light window to each floor of the narrow right-hand bay and to the left-hand bay a 5-light window on each floor (with coloured glass on ground floor) and gable. Raised brick verges. Corniced brick end stacks. Ridge louvre with battered, tile-hung, sides; wooden lantern, and swept pyramidal roof with wooden finial. Interior: panelled doors; ground-floor rooms panelled and with decorative wooden fireplaces, that in left-hand room having pilasters with garlands and Ionic capitals, dentilled cornice, and clock above in bracketed wooden surround. Coffered ceiling to stair hall, the stair plain but having panelled newels.
Originally the Reading Room was on the ground floor with Library above.
R Gibbs, A History of Aylesbury (1885) Buckinghamshire County Record Office, D.15/4/2, Robert Gibbs Scrapbrook, p.104
Listing NGR: SP8185313761
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41976
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gibbs, R, History of Aylesbury, (1885)
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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