Description

BUCKINGHAM

SP6933 CASTLE STREET
879-1/6/31 (South side)
13/10/52 No.16
Trolly Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE STREET
(South side)
No.16
Trolly Hill)

GV II*

Large town house, now partly offices. Early C18, with C19 and
C20 alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond with flared
headers, stone dressings, all painted, hipped plain-tile roof
and brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. 3-storey, 5-window
range.
Central, 6-panel door, approached by 3 stone steps with
rounded ends. Door has overlight divided into 4 lights with
shallow ogee-arched heads, moulded stone surround and cornice
supported by console brackets either end. 12-pane sash windows
to ground, first and 2nd floors, round arch-headed window to
1st floor centre and circular window to 2nd floor above, all
with moulded stone surrounds. Rendered plinth with
wave-moulded coping, rusticated quoins and sill bands, that to
1st hollow-chamfered to underside, that to 2nd with wave
moulding to underside and extra upper moulding. Deep bracketed
stone cornice, and plain stone-coped parapet with rusticated
quoins. Central projection to rear housing staircase, and
2-storey extension to rear left.
INTERIOR: dogleg stair from ground floor to attic with turned
balusters on bulbous feet, moulded handrail, square newels and
close strings. Stone cellar. Some rooms with raised and
fielded panelling.
Replaces a house of 1670 destroyed in fire of 1725.
(Richardson A E: The Smaller English House: 207; FIG 193).

Listing NGR: SP6953833888

Selected Sources

• Richardson, A E, Eberlein, H , The Smaller English House of Later Renaissance 1660-1830, (1925), 207

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