Building record 1189600000 - 12-16 STRATFORD ROAD, BUCKINGHAM

GRADE II. C18, REFRONTED. 2S. FORMERLY 3 COTTAGES WITH 1W EACH. MODERN PANTILE ROOF WITH RED BRICK RIDGE STACKS. TIMBER FRAMED CONSTRUCTION, STILL REVEALING 1/2 TIMBERING AT REAR WITH PARTIAL BRICK NOGGING. MULTI COLOURED STACK BRICK FRONT WITH RENDERED BAND AT FIRST FLOOR SILL LEVEL AND RENDERED DADO. FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS ALTERED. SEGMENTAL ARCHED GROUND FLOOR CASEMENT WINDOWS WITH GLAZING BARS RECESSED SEGMENTAL ARCHED DOORWAYS (B1).
Historic building survey by Oxford Archaeology prior to demolition/conversion. 14-16 had been listed Grade II but subsequently delisted. The first phase of building was found to be late 16th C/early 17th C, a simple one-up one-down cottage with a chimney bay at one end. One of the reused timbers in the roof was dendro-dated to between 1516 and 1529 AD. In the mid to later 17th C a bay was built onto the eastern end and there is some surviving wattle and daub in the eastern wall. In the late 17th C/early 18th C another timber-framed bay was added on the eastern end. In the later 18th C a brick extension was built at the eastern end. There is evidence that this would have been thatched, probably like the rest of the timber framed building. No 12 was built in brick at the western end in the early 19th C. In the mid to later 19th C the front wall of the whole block was rebuilt in red brick on top of the original wall plate. Originally there were three doors in this wall (one was subsequently blocked) suggesting the older building was being used as three dwellings. There are only two staircases inside so the central bay may have had a ladder to the first floor. In the 20th C the front and rear walls were raised above the old wallplates and a new roof was constructed over the old one and clad with modern pantiles. The rear wall of No 13 was rebuilt in a single brick skin (B2).