Description

BUCKINGHAM

SP6934 MARKET HILL
879-1/5/93 (North side)
03/04/73 Nos.15 AND 16

GV II

Shop and offices. Late C18/early C19 with medieval origins,
altered C20. Red brick in Flemish bond with some flared
headers and slate roof. L-plan.
3-storey, 4-window range. Carriageway to far right. C20 shop
front to rest of ground floor. 16-pane sash windows to 1st and
2nd floors with gauged brick flat-arched heads. Those over
carriageway are smaller, that to 1st floor with flat-arched
head, that to 2nd with wood lintel. 2nd-floor storey band and
cogged brick eaves. 2-storey wing to rear left with plain-tile
roof and brick end stack.
INTERIOR: stone cellar, infilled. Wing has chamfered spine
beams and some stop-chamfered joists. Room over carriageway
has the larger part of a C14 aisled hall truss against the
party wall, with signs of smoke blackening. Truss has massive
chamfered and hollow-chamfered cambered collar, arch-braced
between presumed aisle posts. Arch braces cut into collar and
have sunk quadrant mouldings framed by hollow chamfers, with
roll mouldings outermost partly hacked back. Main block has
queen posts roof with 1 tier of purlins.

Listing NGR: SP6961334055

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570043

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas