Building record 1480400000 - 128 & 130 High Street

Summary

Pair of late nineteenth century semi-detached Rothschild Estate cottages

Protected Status/Designation

  • Conservation Area: Waddesdon Conservation Area

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Type and Period (3)

  • HOUSE (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • SEMI DETACHED HOUSE (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • ESTATE COTTAGE (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Modest semi-detached building set back from the pavement behind metal railing. Two storeys in height, the building sits beneath relatively steeply pitched gable roof laid in slate, the ridgeline of which runs parallel with the carriageway. Central mid-ridge brick chimney. Regular fenestration pattern with two entrance doors positioned to outer edges of principle elevation flanked by single sash window. Entrance doors contained beneath open timber porches with gabled tiled roofs. Two timber sash windows to first floor positioned directly above ground floor sashes. Painted carved Rothschild motif positioned between windows at first floor level. Windows of left hand (facing) cottage retain original timber sashes, those to the right hand (facing) cottage have been replaced. This building forms part of a group of modest Rothschild estate cottages which are relatively modest in scale and decorative details They distinctive in the regularity of their principle elevations. Local Building of Note within the Conservation Area (B1).

Sources (1)

  • <1>SBC23758 Bibliographic reference: Aylesbury Vale District Council. 2014. Waddesdon Conservation Area Review.

Location

Grid reference SP 73895 17094 (point)
Civil Parish WADDESDON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jun 23 2021 7:31PM

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