Description

1.
5135 HIGH STREET
(North-East Side)
Stony Stratford
No 96
(Tower House)
SP 7840 1/169

II GV

2.
Earlier house rebuilt 1746, after fire and much altered in late C18. Refronted
and heightened in mid C19. 3 storey brick with stone eaves cornice, quoins, rustication
to doors at left and window heads. 4 windows. Shallow pitched slate roof. Sash
windows with incised keys in heads; 2 three light windows on 1st floor and an oriel
bay on left with 3 lights and a dentil cornice. Main entrance under 3rd window
from left, wooden doorcase with thin pilasters and reeded brackets supporting a
moulded cornice. North-east front rounded on 1st 2 floors. The rear extensions,
partly brick and partly stone and tiled form a pleasant courtyard with a projecting
coachhouse to the left and stables and a hay loft joining the rear extension of
the house. Various windows, some round headed on brick stable and coachhouse blocks.
latter has hipped gable to south-west. Interior has fine late C18 circular staircase
with coved ceiling and gothick light.

Nos 62 to 86 (even), including Nos 66A, 70A and 86A, Nos 88 to 106 (even) and
the former St Anthony Franciscan preparatory school form a group.

Listing NGR: SP7860940592

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26418383

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)