Description

BUCKINGHAM

SP6933 CASTLE STREET
879-1/6/29 (South side)
13/10/52 No.13
Marriotts
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE STREET
(South side)
No.13)

GV II

House, milliner's shop and haberdashery, later petrol station
and workshop, now offices. Probably mid-C18, altered C19 and
C20. Rendered over brick, with C20 plain-tile roof and brick
end stacks. Double-depth plan.
3-storey, 5-window range. C19 double shop front to left with
round arch-headed divisions and fluted Doric columns either
end, supporting fascia with dentilled cornice. Two 12-pane
sash windows to ground floor right with moulded rendered
surrounds. Similar windows to 1st and 2nd floors. Plinth,
rusticated quoins, storey bands, and plain stone-coped
parapet. Right side elevation facing Elm Street has door with
overlight, panelled reveals, and moulded wood surround with
cornice hood.
INTERIOR: ground floor opened out C19 with new stair preceded
by arcaded screen of 3 elliptical arch-headed openings with
key blocks, that to centre much wider than those either side.
Top-lit corkscrew spiral stair to 1st-floor gallery with
ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail and cut tread ends;
coved ceiling with panel mouldings and domed skylight. Back
wall of staircase hall has large central mirror framed by what
is probably the original front door surround with Corinthian
half-columns supporting full entablature. Formerly a
milliner's shop and haberdashery in C19, then, until 1986, a
petrol station and bicycle repair shop - 'Marriotts'.
(IMC Multinational: A Celebration of the Castle Street Site
(pamphlet): Buckingham).

Listing NGR: SP6952533860

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26499890

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990