Guildhall
GUILDHALL, CORNMARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1332349
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- GUILDHALL, CORNMARKET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1332349
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUILDHALL, CORNMARKET
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:
- GUILDHALL, CORNMARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 86522 93021
Details
1. CORNMARKET 963 (West Side) Guildhall SU 8693 SE 2/18 9.1.54. I GV
2. Dated 1757, designed by Henry Keene and built at the expense of the Earl of Shelburne. On the site of a Guildhall of 1604. 2 storeys, open arcaded ground floor, symmetrically designed east, west and north elevations. Red brickwork with stone stringcourse at 1st floor level. Bracketed stone cornice with blocking course. Hipped old tiled roof with delicate octagonal cupola of slender Roman Doric columns, on scroll supports, framing round headed openings and supporting broken entablature, with small dome and wrought iron weather vane. Central motif on each front, except the south, has slight projection and pediment, with round headed central sash window in stone surround with cornice and dummy balustrade under sill. Altogether 5 sashes to each front with glazing bars, flat arches to side windows. This building, standing out at right angles to the High Street fronts, makes a large contribution to the street scene. See illustration in Murray's Buckinghamshire by Betjeman and Piper. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Nos 1 to 5 (consec), The Little Market House, Guildhall, Premises occupied by Midland Bank and The Falcon Hotel form a group.
Listing NGR: SU8652293021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46010
- 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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