Building record 1194700000 - CORNER HOUSE, 16 WEST STREET

Summary

Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century house with nineteenth and twentieth century alterations, now two houses

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1205630: CORNER HOUSE (DBC3561)

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to Modern - 1600 AD? to 1999 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) CROSS WING HOUSE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD? to 1799 AD?)
  • (Alternate Type) CROSS PASSAGE HOUSE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD? to 1799 AD?)

Description

Grade II. House. Late C17/early C18, altered and extended early C19 and altered late C19 and C20. Coursed limestone rubble with late C19 stone dressings, plain-tile roof, brick end and ridge stacks. 2-unit, through-passage plan. 2-storey, 2-window range. Central 6-panel door with panelled reveals and moulded wood surround and shallow straight hood. 2-light leaded casement windows to ground and 1st floors with chamfered stone sills and lintels. Dentilled brick eaves. 1-storey extension to left with 4-light leaded casements and stone sills and lintels. 2-storey extension to right with 2-light leaded casement windows to ground and 1st floors with similar sills and lintels. Right end section forms a shallow cross wing and has limestone and ironstone quoins. Garden front to rear has central part-glazed door with overlight and moulded wood surround and sash windows to ground and 1st floors with wood lintels. Back wall of 2-storey extension has been rebuilt in C20 brick. Said to be on site of the house occupied by Cromwell in Civil War (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.

Location

Grid reference SP 69400 33985 (point)
Civil Parish BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 10 2022 7:06PM

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