Description

SP 7216-7316
10/123

WADDESDON
HIGH STREET (south side)
Nos. 101 and 101A

GV
II
Pair of houses, formerly Club and Reading Room. Dated 1883. Probably by W. Taylor of Bierton, for Ferdinand de Rothschild. Red brick, pebbledash and ornamental half-timbering to gables, moulded bargeboards, tiled roofs. Panelled brick chimneys with terracotta rosettes and zig-zag ornament to caps.

Picturesque. T-plan. One storey and attic. Front to road has two bays of three-light transomed wooden casements to each side of slight gabled projection. This centre-piece has rectangular wooden bay window to ground floor, with arched lower lights, barred top lights and central arched panel with wrought iron scroll ornament. Turned wooden balustrade above has central panel with Rothschild badge of five crossed arrows. Left end has small verandah of three wooden arches on turned balusters, the central arch with wrought iron scroll ornament. Splat balustrade. Rear wall of verandah is rendered and incised with Jacobethan cartouches containing literary, artistic and geographical subjects. Ornamental gable above overhangs on shaped brackets. Lean-to porch in rear angle has roof on turned balusters, and elaborate wrought iron bracket. Another gabled porch to rear wing.

Listing NGR: SP7396416891

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26411300

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)