Description

SP 8607 WENDOVER HIGH STREET
(South side)
569/10/254
Number 27,
21.12.1967 Bosworth House

GV II

House, at one time part of a single range with No. 25. C16 altered. Timber framed with brick infill and refacing to ground floor. Old tile roof with chimney each end, diagonal shafts to LH stack, 3 circular shafts on moulded base to RH stack. 2 small gabled dormers. 2-storeys and attic, 2 bays of tripartite sashes with large panes and brick soldier arches. 6 panel central door with narrow rectangular fanlight and simple architrave. INTERIOR: Ground floor: chamfered beams; right-hand room has rebuilt fireplace and C17 panelling re-located from left-hand 1st floor room. !st floor: left room has fragments of wall painting of 3rd quarter of C16 in date. There are remnants of two panels depicting birds in foliage, and painting on one window post. The right-hand room has large brick fireplace with moulded, Tudor-arched, surround. Attic: at right end, fireplace with flattened elliptical arch; roof has collared trusses with struts and principal rafters, 2 tiers of butt purlins, and pegged common rafters. [RCHM I p. 307 MON.19 (part). F W Reader, Wall-paintings of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries recently discovered in Bosworth House, Wendover, Bucks. Archaeol. Assoc., pp77-97. ]

Listing NGR: SP8678207770

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26411858

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)