Building record 1193703000 - 4-6 WEST STREET

Grade II. Shop and offices, probably formerly town house. Early-mid C18 with older origins, and C19 and C20 alterations. Flared headers in header bond with red brick details, hipped plain-tile roofs, brick lateral and internal stacks. T-plan. 2-storey, 9-window range. 6-panel door to right of centre approached by 2 stone steps. Moulded wood door surround framed by fluted Ionic pilasters bearing entablature with pulvinated frieze, dentilled cornice and pediment. 12-pane sash window to right of door with gauged brick, flat-arched head. C19 shop front to far right. Canted bay window to ground floor centre and blocked carriage arch to left of centre with segmental-arched gauged brick head now filled by 6-panel, part-glazed door and 12-pane sash. 12-pane sash windows to ground floor left and to 1st floor, all with flat-arched, gauged brick heads. Plinth, partly composed of limestone rubble and coursed squared limestone. Pair of cellar windows to far left with segmental-arched heads. Brick pilasters to either end of front, fine wave-moulded and dentilled brick cornice and panelled, stone-coped brick parapet. Roof is composed of a series of small hips. 2-storey wing to rear centre, timber-framed with rendered panels, possibly C17. 3-bay section to left (No.6) has good early C19 railing with spear finials and vases to standards. INTERIOR: No.6 has cellar, which seems originally to have been a kitchen; it has a fireplace. 1st-floor room with moulded wood cornice and fielded panelling. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Buckinghamshire: London: 1960: p76).
Buildings report dated May 1995 held at NMR (B2).