Description

LAKE STREET
1
5125
(North West Side)
LEIGHTON BUZZARD
SP 9225 SW 1/347 Nos 13 and 15 (front
block only)
II

2
DESCRIPTION

A C17, two storey and attic, L plan box timber framed house, cased in brick in
the C18 and the front elevation stuccoed with shop front inserted c1860-70. The
framing survives in the roof structure with the short rear wing, in the south
gable end and in some of the interior walls including stud partitioning. Gable
end slate roofs. The rear wing has brick plate band, blocked casement and early
C19 sash windows. The wood C19 front elevation has a double plate glass shop
front with sidelights splayed in to doorway. Pilaster frame with carved console
brackets flanking boxed fascia and supporting moulded cornice. 2 architrave
surround sash windows on 1st floor screened by tent shaped canopy withimtted
valance supported by a thin iron upright wing from shop cornice. Left hand 1st
floor window is a rectangular 2 light wood bay with fretted eaves band and pedi-
ment. Original lamps on scrolled brackets at ends of shop cornice.

Listing NGR: SP9226525036

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539432

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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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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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy