Monument record 0948500000 - Highly Sprung warehouse at Oakridge Road
Summary
Modern furniture warehouse (vacant as at 2006) on site of a former furniture factory and house.
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Type and Period (2)
- FURNITURE FACTORY (19th Century to Modern - 1895 AD to 1910 AD)
- FURNITURE WAREHOUSE (20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
Description
Modern furniture retail warehouse - vacant as at 2006 - with a name board of Highly Sprung, a furniture-making firm with a factory nearby in Abercrombie Avenue. Date of this building is unknown but looks around 1960s. The 1910 Valuation Survey and Freer's Directories of 1905 and 1909 show the site was owned and occupied as a house (12 Oakridge Road) and chairmaking factory by Jabez Harris probably built around 1900. Not known when that use ceased. The house was described as a detached cottage. There were two brick and timber chair shops with slate roofs, a brick office and staining shed with slate roofs and a corrugated iron shed (B1).
Sources (1)
- <1>SBC22738 Digital archive: Marian Miller. 2006. Database of Furnture Factories in High Wycombe. PD205.
Location
| Grid reference | SU 85413 93560 (point) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire |
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Record last edited
Apr 27 2021 11:01AM
