Description

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SP 8113 NE
1/212
799

KINGSBURY (east side)
No 31

(Formerly listed as No 12 Buckingham Street)

Includes No 12 Buckingham Street. House and shops. Late medieval origins;
remodelled late C16/early C17; early C19 extension, facing Buckingham Street, to
rear; elevation to Kingsbury refronted mid C19. Timber-framed, with rendered front
to Buckingham Street and brick front to Kingsbury. Right-angle plan. 3-storey,
2-window range elevation to Kingsbury has mid/late C19 shop front with bracketed
cornice over C20 door and window; flat brick arches over horned 4-pane sashes;
parapet. Gabled 2-storey, 2-window range front to Buckingham Street: C20 plate-
glass shop window set in early/mid C19 architrave, and C20 door; first floor has
Gothic-style ogee-headed glazing bar windows and central plank door; later C19
bargeboards. Interior: late C16/early C17 chamfered beam and mid C19 oven range
to cellar. Exposed timber frame with straight wall bracing; 3 bays of framing,
with framing to rear 2 bays being probably of late medieval origin and heightened
in late C16/early C17; late medieval framing to left-hand wall of front bay;
chamfered beam to front and stopped hollow-chamfered beam to rear; curved bracing
to tie beams and clasped purlin trusses with curved wind bracing. Mid C19 staircase
and, to rear room on ground floor, 2 early C19 cupboards with debased Greek Key
ornament; 2 C17 plank doors to first floor. Early C19 trusses to one-unit extension
facing Buckingham Street.

Listing NGR: SP8189613913

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26411471

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version