Building record 1319000000 - BROWN'S FURNITURE FACTORY, CHURCH LANE

Summary

Eighteenth or nineteenth century furniture factory workshop in West Wycombe

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II*) 1125174: WORKSHOP (FURNITURE FACTORY) ADJOINING NO 37 HIGH STREET ON NORTH & OCCUPIED BY EMF BROWN (DBC4984)

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Type and Period (2)

  • (Alternate Type) WORKSHOP (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD to 1899 AD)
  • FURNITURE FACTORY (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II+. Late C18 or early C19. Red brick ground floor, painted weatherboarded first and second floors, old tiled roof. Ground floor has 4 casements, 2 light with wooden mullions and cambered relieving arches, 1 window partly boarded. Upper floors have 2 single light, 2 double light and 2 4 light wooden mullioned casements. Plain doors to ground and first floors, latter approached by external wooden staircase. Graded partly for historical interest as one of the few surviving furniture workshops of this period and district (B1).

Sources (2)

  • ---SBC24551 Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology South. 2015. National Trust West Wycombe Village; Vernacular Buildings Synthesis Study.
  • <1>SBC3604 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1973. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: WYCOMBE DISTRICT: BOROUGH OF HIGH WYCOMBE. p13.

Location

Grid reference SU 83022 94687 (point)
Civil Parish HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13570)

Record last edited

Feb 8 2016 4:05PM

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