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12 and 13, Market Square

A Grade II* Listed Building in Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0557 / 52°3'20"N

Longitude: -0.8543 / 0°51'15"W

OS Eastings: 478649

OS Northings: 240321

OS Grid: SP786403

Mapcode National: GBR BYN.0TP

Mapcode Global: VHDSZ.4LPG

Plus Code: 9C4X344W+77

Entry Name: 12 and 13, Market Square

Listing Date: 12 June 1953

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1332270

English Heritage Legacy ID: 45605

ID on this website: 101332270

Location: Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK11

County: Milton Keynes

Civil Parish: Stony Stratford

Built-Up Area: Milton Keynes

Traditional County: Buckinghamshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Buckinghamshire

Church of England Parish: Stony Stratford St Mary and Giles

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


1. 5135 MARKET SQUARE (South Side) Stony Stratford Nos 12 and 13 SP 7840 1/69 12.6.53.

II* GV

2. A later C17 2-storey stone house coursed rubble in alternate large and small courses. A deep raised band between the storeys, steep pitched early tiled roof with 3 hipped dormers, late brick chimney stacks. Dentilled eaves cornice. 4 widely spaced windows to 1st floor, later C18, alternating single light and two 3-light sash in moulded wooden cases and small plain cill. At south end of ground floor is house entrance with a 3 light sash window on the left of it and a single light on the right. Stones forming the heads of both these windows are with sloping sides and curved tops which with a raised keystone gives the form of a crown cf No 48 High Street. The doorway has a good moulded eared architrave at the top of which is a carving of long leaves spreading out and down from a boss with a head of a putti above a carved keystone. Panelled door, 4 fielded and 2 incised panels with a rectangular light above it. Above the entrance and resting on the band is a rectangular plaque with the letters I.A.M. (Joseph and? Amelia Malpas) above an heraldic shield below which is the date 1790. North end of ground floor has a good double-fronted shop with glazing bars and beyond that a wide doorway with moulded architrave with keystone. Late doors. Timber-framed gabled extension at rear, part formerly a pin factory. Interior has a late C18 chimneypiece in the style of the Adam brothers.

Nos 36 to 40 (even) Church Street form a group with Stratford House, Mill Lane and all the listed building in the Market Square.

Listing NGR: SP7864940321

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