Building record 1185000000 - 15 & 16 MARKET HILL

Summary

Fourteenth century timber-framed house remodelled in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, with twentieth century alterations, now a shop and offices

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1280957: NOS 15 AND 16 MARKET HILL

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Type and Period (5)

  • SHOP (20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
  • HOUSE (14th Century to Modern - 1300 AD to 1999 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (14th Century - 1300 AD to 1399 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) AISLED HALL HOUSE (14th Century - 1300 AD to 1399 AD)
  • OFFICE (20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Grade II. Shop and offices. Late C18/early C19 with medieval origins, altered C20. Red brick in Flemish bond with some flared headers and slate roof. L-plan. 3-storey, 4-window range. Carriageway to far right. C20 shop front to rest of ground floor. 16-pane sash windows to 1st and 2nd floors with gauged brick flat-arched heads. Those over carriageway are smaller, that to 1st floor with flat-arched head, that to 2nd with wood lintel. 2nd-floor storey band and cogged brick eaves. 2-storey wing to rear left with plain-tile roof and brick end stack. INTERIOR: stone cellar, infilled. Wing has chamfered spine beams and some stop-chamfered joists. Room over carriageway has the larger part of a C14 aisled hall truss against the party wall, with signs of smoke blackening. Truss has massive chamfered and hollow-chamfered cambered collar, arch-braced between presumed aisle posts. Arch braces cut into collar and have sunk quadrant mouldings framed by hollow chamfers, with roll mouldings outermost partly hacked back. Main block has queen posts roof with 1 tier of purlins (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC3596 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1973. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: BOROUGH OF BUCKINGHAM. p38.
  • <2>SBC23498 Bibliographic reference: Department of National Heritage (DNH). 1994. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: BOROUGH OF BUCKINGHAM. p80.

Location

Grid reference SP 69612 34050 (point)
Civil Parish BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC1357)

Record last edited

Nov 13 2023 5:36PM

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