Building record 1187500000 - Villiers House, 1 Nelson Street

Summary

Mid-eighteenth century house, now offices, with nineteenth and twentieth century alterations.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1201402: VILLIERS HOUSE (DBC2523)

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (18th Century to Modern - 1700 AD to 1999 AD)
  • OFFICE (20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Grade II. House, now offices. Mid C18, altered C19 and C20. Red brick in Flemish bond with some flared headers, plain-tile roof and brick end stacks. 2-unit plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Central 4-panel door approached by 3 stone steps. Door has overlight, panelled reveals, reeded wood surround with paterae to top corners and straight hood. Door is flanked by canted bay windows on brick bases, that to left incorporating 2-light cellar window. Bays have 12-pane sashes to front, moulded cornices and flat roofs. 12-pane sash windows to 1st floor with wood lintels either side of blank central window with cambered arched head. Parts of heads of similar windows, now blocked, survive to far left at basement, ground- and 1st-floor levels. Plinth, storey band and double wave-moulded brick eaves. 2 flat-roofed roof dormer windows and brick-coped gable to right. INTERIOR: roof has 1 tier of purlins, closely spaced rafters and no principals (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC3596 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1973. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: BOROUGH OF BUCKINGHAM. p48.
  • <2>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 69456 33868 (point)
Civil Parish BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Aug 24 2022 6:53PM

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