Mary Monks Close
MARY MONKS CLOSE, 12, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332750
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Mary Monks Close
- Statutory Address:
- MARY MONKS CLOSE, 12, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-07-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/07600/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332750
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Mary Monks Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARY MONKS CLOSE, 12, 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:
- MARY MONKS CLOSE, 12, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 80375 20581
Details
SP 8020 WHITCHURCH HIGH STREET (east side)
9/210 No. 12. (Mary Monks Close)(formerly listed as No.20) 21.12.67
- II
House. Late C18, altered and extended. Red brick with tuck pointing, moulded plinth and moulded wooden eaves cornice with ornamental dentils. Slate roof, flanking brick chimneys. 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. C19 barred wooden casements, 3-light flanking 2-light, ground floor windows with lozenge panes in top-lights and gauged brick heads. Central ground floor window has altered head, probably once over front door. 2-light wooden casement to attic in left gable. Additional bay to right is rendered and whitewashed with 3-light leaded casement over fine 6-panelled door. Door has semi-circular radiating fanlight in depressed arch, panelled reveals, flanking Doric pilasters, and C20 entablature hood with triglyph frieze. Gabled cross wing of c.1911 to far right is also rendered and whitewashed, with asbestos slate roof and barred sash windows. Rear much altered C20.
Listing NGR: SP8037520581
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42358
- 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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