Description

BUCKINGHAM

SP6934 WEST STREET
879-1/5/181 (North side)
13/10/52 Nos.4, 5 AND 6

GV II

Shop and offices, probably formerly town house. Early-mid C18
with older origins, and C19 and C20 alterations. Flared
headers in header bond with red brick details, hipped
plain-tile roofs, brick lateral and internal stacks. T-plan.
2-storey, 9-window range.
6-panel door to right of centre approached by 2 stone steps.
Moulded wood door surround framed by fluted Ionic pilasters
bearing entablature with pulvinated frieze, dentilled cornice
and pediment. 12-pane sash window to right of door with gauged
brick, flat-arched head. C19 shop front to far right. Canted
bay window to ground floor centre and blocked carriage arch to
left of centre with segmental-arched gauged brick head now
filled by 6-panel, part-glazed door and 12-pane sash. 12-pane
sash windows to ground floor left and to 1st floor, all with
flat-arched, gauged brick heads. Plinth, partly composed of
limestone rubble and coursed squared limestone. Pair of cellar
windows to far left with segmental-arched heads. Brick
pilasters to either end of front, fine wave-moulded and
dentilled brick cornice and panelled, stone-coped brick
parapet. Roof is composed of a series of small hips. 2-storey
wing to rear centre, timber-framed with rendered panels,
possibly C17. 3-bay section to left (No.6) has good early C19
railing with spear finials and vases to standards.
INTERIOR: No.6 has cellar, which seems originally to have been
a kitchen; it has a fireplace. 1st-floor room with moulded
wood cornice and fielded panelling.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Buckinghamshire: London:
1960-: 76).

Listing NGR: SP6952134021

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569763

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