Building record 1183200000 - NORTONS HOUSE, 1 HUNTER STREET

Summary

Early nineteenth century alteration of an earlier house, now used as offices.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1282719: NORTONS HOUSE

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD? to 1899 AD)
  • UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION OFFICE (20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Grade II. House, now offices. Early C19, with older origins and C20 alterations. Rendered, with incised masonry patterns, slate roof and rendered end stacks. L-plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. 6-panel door just left of centre with ornamental overlight, panelled reveals and reeded wood surround with paterae to top angles and shallow straight hood. Tripartite sash windows to ground floor either side of door. 12-pane sashes to 1st floor with rendered lintels. Plinth, storey band at level of heads of ground floor windows and interrupted by head of door. Stone-coped gables, that to left with paterae to kneeler. 2-storey wing to right, windowless to front, with plain-tile roof and cogged brick eaves. 2-storey wing to rear left, pebbledashed with hipped C20 plain-tile roof and dentilled brick eaves. INTERIOR: 6-panel doors with reeded wood surrounds and paterae to top angles. Open-well staircase from ground to 1st floor with mahogany stick balusters, turned to top, ramped handrail and scrolled tread ends (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. p70.

Location

Grid reference SP 69344 33640 (point)
Civil Parish BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 9 2022 6:12PM

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