Building record 1407900000 - Markham's Court, Market Square

Grade II. Warehouse, formerly barracks. Early-mid C19. For the Bucks Yeomanry. Yellow brick in Flemish bond, hipped slate roof. Long rectangular range with attached stair and porch blocks to right side. 4-storey, 17-window main range. Front faces yard to north-east and has large central doorway with 4-panel, double-leaf doors, fanlight and round-arched head. Narrow 1-light windows to ground floor with short, segmental-arched heads. Slightly wider, 1-light windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors, all with chamfered brick surrounds and round-arched heads. Windows to ground and 1st floors either side of entrance bay are set in giant recesses with round-arched heads. Pairs of windows to entrance bay above door to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors and slightly smaller than the rest and more closely spaced. Storey band at 2nd-floor level divides front horizontally. 2nd floor windows are set in round arch-headed recesses. Chamfered brick eaves. 3-storey and attic stair block to right end, with single-slope slate roof and paired round arch-headed windows, behind 2-storey porch projecting in front with flat roof and canted corners, round arch-headed doorway to ground floor and 12-pane sash window to 1st floor with similar head; 4-panel door to 1st floor right side with fanlight and round-arched head. INTERIOR: stop-chamfered central open-well cantilevered stone stair from ground to 1st floors. Similar stairs to all floors in stair block. Both have plain iron balustrades and handrails. Some surviving gun racks (B1).