Building record 1212212000 - 64, 66 & 68 LONDON END
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- Listed Building (II) 1160699: NOS 64, 66 AND 68 LONDON END (DBC1603)
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Type and Period (6)
- HOUSE (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
- GARAGE (20th Century - 1900 AD? to 1999 AD)
- SHELL FACTORY (Modern - 1914 AD to 1918 AD)
- MUNITIONS FACTORY (Modern - 1914 AD to 1918 AD)
- BOARDING SCHOOL (19th Century - 1800 AD? to 1897 AD)
- SHOP (20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
Description
Grade II. Late C18. Red brick; old tile roof; moulded wooden eaves cornice. Three storeys. First and second floors each with 5 sashes. NO 64 with wrought iron bracket for hanging sign. Ground floor: NO'S 66 & 68. Garage with modern plate glass windows. No 64 with2 modern rectangular bay windows and a C18 central wooden doorcase with flat hood on carved consoles, its architrave with paterae (B1).
In the 19th century the building was used as a private boarding and day school, with a single-storey schoolroom in the rear yard and the house used as dormitories (B2-3).
No 68 was subsequently used by Beaconsfield Motor Co Ltd (motor engineers) and is now [2016] the premises and workshops of A J Dunlop (B4).
During WW1 the garages became a munitions factory, employing 76 female and 26 male employees, producing 18 and 6 pounder common and incendiary shells and 'C I shrapnel sockets' (B3, B5).
Sources (5)
- <1>SBC4001 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: DISTRICT OF SOUTH BUCKS. p31.
- <2>SBC23654 Bibliographic reference: Julian Hunt & David Thorpe. 2009. Beaconsfield: A History. pp125-6, plate 81.
- <3>SBC19612 Bibliographic reference: Beaconsfiled and District Historical Society. 1983. The History Of Beaconsfield. pp63,75.
- <4>SBC6992 Bibliographic reference: Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1935. KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE - 1935. pp11, 51.
- <5>SBC24767 Bibliographic reference: Department of Engineering. Ministry of Munitions. 1918. Directory of Manufacturers in the Engineering and Allied Trades 1914-18 (War Contracts). p 58 (ref 1015).
Location
Grid reference | SU 94765 90133 (point) |
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Civil Parish | BEACONSFIELD, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire |
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Record last edited
Sep 8 2025 4:22PM