Building record 1201400000 - 40 KINGSBURY

Summary

Eighteenth century refronting to earlier, possibly timber-framed house, with nineteenth and twentieth century alterations, formerly a shop, now a restaurant

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1319201: NO 40 KINGSBURY

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Type and Period (4)

  • HOUSE (17th Century to Modern - 1600 AD? to 1999 AD)
  • TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE? (17th Century - 1600 AD? to 1699 AD)
  • SHOP (Altered 1956, 20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
  • RESTAURANT (21st Century - 2000 AD to 2099 AD)

Description

Grade II. Late C18 front to older building. Three storeys. Red brick: Painted wood modillioned cornice. Slate reef. Two windows. The first floor windows 3-light with no glazing bars. Central early C19 half glazed door with reeded bottom panels, in C18 doorcase of bold carved scroll brackets, acanthus enrichment, with enriched bed mould broken round brackets, which rest on small carved Ionic capitals with (later?) fluted pilaster shafts of different width to capitals. The door has late C18 fanlight of central double circle and curved diamond pattern, the doorhead enriched with carved leaf motif. one interior features of C18 date. The brick front projects below the cornice and is evidently built against the original wall face, which may be timber framed. Altered 1956, with Neo-Georgian shop front of 2 segmental bow windows (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC3590 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1973. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST. p25.

Location

Grid reference SP 81845 13885 (point)
Civil Parish AYLESBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

May 30 2024 4:31PM

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