Description

BUCKINGHAM

SP6934 HIGH STREET
879-1/5/77 (North West side)
13/10/52 No.36
Old Market House

GV II

House, now restaurant. Late C15, altered C18 and C20, when
plaster render was stripped and building restored, and
otherwise altered. Timber-framed with rendered infill,
plain-tile roof, brick internal and rear lateral stacks.
2-unit plan.
2-storeys and attic; 3-window range. C20 door to far left with
C20 Tudor-arched head. C20 leaded bay windows to right of door
and to ground floor far right. C20 leaded wood mullion and
transom windows between them, that to right replacing a door.
2-light C20 leaded casement window to 1st floor. Rendered
plinth, close-studded timber frame, jettied 1st floor and
braces from end posts to wall posts and tie beam of left end
elevation. First-floor end posts have cusped ogee-arched sunk
panels with crocketed canopies. Two C20 hipped roof dormer
windows. Sun fire insurance plaque No.644298.
INTERIOR: stone cellar. Ground-floor room has Tudor-arched
doorway with carved spandrels, large stone fireplace with
chamfered, Tudor-arched head, hollow-chamfered and moulded
spine beam, stop-moulded joists, and moulded cornices. Roof
has arch-braced collar trusses, diagonal ridge piece and 2
tiers of purlins, the lower purlins wind-braced. House was
sub-divided vertically, probably C18.
A cottage, the former King's Head, was demolished for
road-widening C20 giving the house a corner position it did
not originally have. Front was heavily restored following
removal of plaster render and re-windowed in Tudor style, on
uncertain evidence.

Listing NGR: SP6967834132

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570105

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)