Blue Dragon, and Premises of Colin Lobering Butchers
BLUE DRAGON, AND PREMISES OF COLIN LOBERING BUTCHERS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332423
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Dragon, and Premises of Colin Lobering Butchers
- Statutory Address:
- BLUE DRAGON, AND PREMISES OF COLIN LOBERING BUTCHERS, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-06-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/04764/33
- Rights:
- © Mr John Ling. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332423
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Dragon, and Premises of Colin Lobering Butchers
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLUE DRAGON, AND PREMISES OF COLIN LOBERING BUTCHERS, HIGH 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:
- BLUE DRAGON, AND PREMISES OF COLIN LOBERING BUTCHERS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chalfont St. Giles
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 99052 93501
Details
CHALFONT ST GILES HIGH STREET
SU9993
(East Side)
Blue Dragon, and
premises of Colin Lobering
Butchers(formerly listed
as house abutting and to
the south of Lych Gate
Cottage)
4/25
II GV
House, now 2 shops. Probably early C16; C17, C18, C19 and C20 alterations.
Timber frame with plastered wattle and daub infill; right-hand property with
painted C19 Flemish bond brickwork. Plain tile roofs, brick stack. 2 storeys,
2 bays, the left-hand bay jettied; the right-hand bay refronted in C19, but
with evidence that the right-hand half of this bay was recessed originally.
Left bay has mid-late C20 shop front with door to Lychgate Cottage on left;
on 1st floor framing exposed, including ends of joists, bressumer and arched
tension braces; C20 2 light 4-pane window. Right-hand bay has mid-late C20
shop front in earlier surround with deep facia; 4-pane sash to 1st floor,
below gable. Rear: right bay has framing exposed on 1st floor, with C20 door
and windows. Truncated C18 chimney rises from rear roof pitch, between bays.
C19 and C20 additions to right-hand bay, not of special interest. Left bay
has C19 rear wing addition with three side-sliding small-pane sashes, and logged
eaves. Interior: on ground floor, left bay has chamferred cross-beam, and
right bay a large-scantling cross-beam near front of property, chamfered at
left side (with a run-out and a stepped-cyma stop) and with slots and mortices
in soffit at centre of right side indicating position of former wall. On
1st floor old joists and wide floor boards. In right bay the chimney has C17
brickwork to lower section, C18 brickwork above. Central roof truss has camfered
tie-beam supporting queen posts braced to collar, the braces and posts hollow-
moulded and forming 4- centeredd arch; ½ pyramidal stops to moulding. Butt purlins.
Old, pegged, rafters, with carpenters marks.
Listing NGR: SU9905293501
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44399
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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