Description

BUCKINGHAM

SP6933 CASTLE STREET
879-1/6/33 (South side)
Nos.18 AND 19

GV II

Pair of houses in one building, now flats, shop and
restaurant. Late C18, altered 1889 when made into store, and
C20 when re-divided. Pebbledashed render over brick with
cemented dressings, slate roof and rendered ridge and end
stacks. Double-depth plan. 3-storey, 6-window range.
6-panel doors to far left and far right either end of 1889
shop front. Both have rectangular fanlights of differing
patterns, panelled reveals, and pilastered wood surrounds.
Continuous moulded cornice extends over doors and shop front
with pediment to central bay and timber balcony with turned
balusters. Pair of tripartite sash windows to 1st floor right
of centre and 2nd floor with moulded wood surrounds. Cemented
decoration of rusticated quoins above ground floor level,
square panel between tripartite sashes, large central panel
framing monogram with initials V A and cartouche above bearing
date 1889. Deep, bracketed wood eaves cornice.
Formerly Vyles, 'the nearest thing to a department store the
town has ever had'.
(Birch C: Buckingham - The Town and District In Camera: 1986-:
24).

Listing NGR: SP6954633909

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570250

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6