Description

BUCKINGHAM

SP6933 WELL STREET
879-1/6/172 (East side)
03/04/73 Nos.55 AND 56
The Old House and attached
outbuilding
(Formerly Listed as:
WELL STREET
(East side)
Nos.55 AND 56
The Old House)

GV II

House, now 2 houses. Early-mid C18, altered later C18 and C19.
Red brick in Flemish bond with some flared headers, plain-tile
roof; brick end stacks. 3-unit plan.
2 storeys and attic; 6-window range. 6-panel door to right of
centre with moulded wood surround in C19 stuccoed porch, which
has doorway with elliptical-arched head, impost mouldings,
plinth, pair of narrow 1-light openings either side, moulded
cornice and stepped blocking cornice. 6-panel, part-glazed
door to left of centre (to No.56) with moulded wood surround
and straight hood on shaped brackets. 12-pane sash windows to
ground and 1st floors, those to ground floor with
segmental-arched heads above straight heads of windows,
rendered in between, and flat-arched heads to those to 1st
floor. Blank window to ground floor right of porch. Pair of
windows to 1st floor left of centre and pair to 1st floor far
right are dummy windows with painted glazing bars. Plinth,
moulded storey band, hollow-chamfered brick eaves and 2
hip-roofed roof dormer windows to left of centre with 2-light
casements. Rows of flared headers flank windows.
Outbuilding to right of red brick in Flemish bond with some
flared headers, and hipped plain-tile roof. Central
double-leaf carriage doors with wicket to left leaf and wood
lintel, lower, later double-leaf carriage doors to right with
wood lintel, and gabled roof dormer to far left.
INTERIOR: chamfered spine beams with scooped stops. Stair with
mahogany stick balusters, column newels and ramped handrail.
Stone cellar.

Listing NGR: SP6957533771

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500807

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)