Building record 1140100000 - WOOLLERTON HOUSE, 7 HIGH STREET

Summary

Eighteenth century refronting of older house, now in use as offices.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1332854: WOOLERTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED GATEPIERS (DBC3756)

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD? to 1799 AD)
  • GATE PIER (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

Grade II. Offices. C18 refronting of earlier building. Red brick, old tile roof, brick chimney with corbelled head, parapet with cornice band of brick in triangular arcaded pattern. 2-storeys, 7 bays of barred sash windows, 6-panel door in 3rd bay from LH with architrave and large wooden doorcase of fluted Doric pilasters, entablature with triglyph frieze, modillion cornice and pediment. Interior: LH ground floor room has C18 moulded timber chimneypiece, flanked by semicircular headed cupboards, moulded chair rail. RH room has modillion cornice. Gatepiers attached to the RH side of the house by a short length of brickwall, 2m high in English bond, pair of C18 brick gatepiers, cut into rusticated blocks with stone cappings and projecting pilasters on inner faces (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC19351 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p95.

Location

Grid reference SP 86918 07845 (point)
Civil Parish WENDOVER, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

May 9 2018 2:40PM

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