Building record 1199700000 - 1 CHURCH STREET

Grade II+. C18 front. Two storeys and attic, with cellar. Vitreous brick with red dressings and window surrounds. Moulded brick eaves cornice. Old tile roof. Two-light gabled dormer casements. Five windows on first floor plus panel to right hand of centre and over door, with plate dated 1739. Five windows on ground floor, segmental headed. All windows with moulded frames and fluted keystones. Eight-panel door in panelled reveal with architrave, third bay from right hand, in doorcase of engaged Doric columns, entablature and pediment, approached by three stone steps. Timber framed gable end. Interior shows heavy moulded ceiling beams, square stops and shaped wall post, and roof beams, all C16. Part of stairs original. (See RCHM). Lower wing on left with wide ground floor carriageway, first floor door to loft (B1).
The house was the home of Thomas Hickman, founder of the Thomas Hickman Charity, established in 1698 to provide almshouses for the poor in Aylesbury. [Photo of interior with 16th century staircase and timber framing](B2).


No 1 Church Street is a two-storeyed house with an attic and cellars, built ca.1540, and refronted in brick in 1739, when the roofs were altered to tile and the attic floor inserted. At the NW end, the original timber-framed gable is visible above the roof of the adjoinin house, but has been heightened with C18th brick. The plan appears to have been rectangular. To the rear are modern additions. Condition - Good. Grade II* (B3).

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