12 AND 13, MARKET SQUARE
12 AND 13, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1332270
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 12 AND 13, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 12 AND 13, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1332270
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 12 AND 13, MARKET SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12 AND 13, MARKET SQUARE
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:
- 12 AND 13, MARKET SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stony Stratford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 78649 40321
Details
1. 5135 MARKET SQUARE (South Side) Stony Stratford Nos 12 and 13 SP 7840 1/69 12.6.53.
II* GV
2. A later C17 2-storey stone house coursed rubble in alternate large and small courses. A deep raised band between the storeys, steep pitched early tiled roof with 3 hipped dormers, late brick chimney stacks. Dentilled eaves cornice. 4 widely spaced windows to 1st floor, later C18, alternating single light and two 3-light sash in moulded wooden cases and small plain cill. At south end of ground floor is house entrance with a 3 light sash window on the left of it and a single light on the right. Stones forming the heads of both these windows are with sloping sides and curved tops which with a raised keystone gives the form of a crown cf No 48 High Street. The doorway has a good moulded eared architrave at the top of which is a carving of long leaves spreading out and down from a boss with a head of a putti above a carved keystone. Panelled door, 4 fielded and 2 incised panels with a rectangular light above it. Above the entrance and resting on the band is a rectangular plaque with the letters I.A.M. (Joseph and? Amelia Malpas) above an heraldic shield below which is the date 1790. North end of ground floor has a good double-fronted shop with glazing bars and beyond that a wide doorway with moulded architrave with keystone. Late doors. Timber-framed gabled extension at rear, part formerly a pin factory. Interior has a late C18 chimneypiece in the style of the Adam brothers.
Nos 36 to 40 (even) Church Street form a group with Stratford House, Mill Lane and all the listed building in the Market Square.
Listing NGR: SP7864940321
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 45605
- 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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