Building record 1181100000 - TRINITY HOUSE, 20 CHURCH STREET

Summary

Sixteenth century house with nineteenth and twentieth century alterations, probably built as the guild house for the Trinity Guild

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II*) 1201373: TRINITY HOUSE (DBC3920)

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (16th Century to Modern - 1500 AD to 1999 AD)
  • GUILDHALL (16th Century - 1500 AD to 1599 AD)

Description

Grade II+. House. Probably C16, altered C19 and C20. Coursed limestone rubble, rendered to front with incised masonry patterns, plain-tile roof, and brick end and ridge stacks, the latter with pair of diagonal flues. 2-unit plan with through passage. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. 6-panel, central door and 4-panel door to right. 12-pane sash window to ground floor left, 2-light casement window to 1st floor, flanked by original 4-light windows to 1st floor left with square wood mullions and similar 3-light window to 1st floor right, both quite short, directly below eaves and recently uncovered and glazed. Rear elevation facing garden has 3 tall, gabled dormers with 2 tiers of windows with wood lintels. INTERIOR: dining room has stone-flagged floor, chamfered spine beam and large open fireplace with chamfered Tudor-arched bressumer. Ridge stack with diagonal flues was formerly end stack and roof to right of this stack is at a lower level over later extension on site of former passage. Believed to have been the guild house of the Trinity Guild (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC23498 Bibliographic reference: Department of National Heritage (DNH). 1994. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: BOROUGH OF BUCKINGHAM.

Location

Grid reference SP 69430 33669 (point)
Civil Parish BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 3 2022 11:10PM

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