Building record 0115300000 - OLD PARSONAGE, ST PETERS STREET

Summary

Fourteenth century partly timber-framed parsonage with eighteenth century alterations.

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Listed Building (II*) 1125080: OLD PARSONAGE (DBC4890)

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Type and Period (3)

VICARAGE (14th Century to 18th Century - 1300 AD to 1799 AD)
(Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (14th Century - 1300 AD to 1399 AD)
(Former Type) HALL HOUSE (14th Century - 1300 AD to 1399 AD)

Description

ORIGINAL HOUSE BUILT C14 OF WHICH ONLY HALL REMAINS, BUILT OF STONE RUBBLE WITH ARCHITECTURAL FRAGS, AND WITH CROWN POST ROOF. ALTERED & ENLARGED AT VARIOUS DATES, CHIEFLY C18, COVERED WITH ROUGH CAST (B1-6).
PART OF HOUSE, NOW SEPARATE IS CALLED THE DEANERY (DEANE, FORMER OWNER), LATE C18 (B7).
Grade II+. C14. Altered at various dates, chiefly in C18. Irregular, rambling building of 2 storeys and attic. North front gabled, part stone and part timber frame, pebble dashed. Brick chimneys. Old tile roof. End gable facing street, half hipped, has 3 storey C18 angular bay, moulded wood strings over ground and 1st floor windows and moulded cornice over 2nd floor windows. Glazing altered. 6 panel door in 2nd gable set back to right hand, with 3 pane rectangular Gothic fanlight and doorcase of Doric pilasters and entablature, one window over, all late C18. South front irregular and similar to North front, each with a large C14 traceried window. Good interior with C14 crown post roof (B3).

Sources (7)

<1>SBC7302 Bibliographic reference: LANGLEY T 1797 HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF THE HUNDRE D OF DESBOROUGH P149.
<2>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. p252.
<3>SBC3617 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1974. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST. p27.
<4>SBC16970 Bibliographic reference: WOOD ME 1949 A C14 HOUSE AT MARLOW, BRITISHARCHAEOLOGICALASSOC.JNL3RDSER.12PP53-58&PLXIII"".
<5>SBC5372 Bibliographic reference: FLETCHER J M & HEWETT CA 1969 MEDIEVAL TIMBERWORK AT BISHAM ABBEY, MEDIEVALARCHAEOLOGY13P224"".
<6>SBC9504 Bibliographic reference: MRS J TAYLOR (CMAG) 1978 FIELD VISIT.
<7>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. p66.

Location

Grid reference	SU 85149 86367 (point)
Civil Parish	MARLOW, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire