Description

SP 8003 PRINCES RISBOROUGH CHURCH STREET

9/162 Library (formerly listed as
Fire Services Office)
21.6.55

GV II

Library, formerly a row of cottages, built as one house. C15-early
C16, altered C16-early C17 and C19, restored 1938. Timber frame with
whitewashed render infill. Ground floor front rebuilt in brick early
C19, left gable rebuilt in brick C20 with crow-stepped top. Tiled
roof. 1½ storeys, the upper storey jettied to front on beam ends.
4 bays. Irregular barred wooden windows: 3-light horizontal sliding
sash to ground floor left, 4-light casement in bay 2, canted bay
window in bay 3, long eaves-line dormer with row of 6 small casements
in bay 2. Board door to left, C20 double doors recessed in right bay.
Interior is open to roof with narrow gallery along S. jettied side.
Centre bays originally an open hall, the central truss with chamfered
arched braces to collar. Curved braces to flanking tie beam trusses on
S. side, N. braces replaced C20. Curved wind-braces in roof. C17
wing to rear has timber-frame with brick infill in gable, and side walls
rebuilt in brick.
RCHM I p. 271 Mon.12.

Listing NGR: SP8070703482

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26418810

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)