Description

1.
5315 HIGH STREET
(North-East Side)
Stony Stratford
Nos 26 and 28
SP 7840 1/38A 12.10.54.

II GV

2.
Earlier house refronted early C18. 2 storeys. 4 windows spaced 1 + 3. Front plastered.
New machine tiles on roof. 2 chimneys. Glazing bar casement windows surrounded
by plain wooden fillet, on 1st floor. No 26 is slightly set back, it has one large
window with glazing bars. Door has 4 incised panels. No 28: shop window fronted
by throughway on left and entrance on right. Fascia with hood in common with entrance
which is flanked by pilasters. Small window over throughway. 2 raised and fielded
panels on door. Interior: retains good late Cl6 stone fireplace on 1st floor with
moulded jambs and 4 centred head. Tudor mouldings on doorway in next room.
Nos 26 and 28 were formerly the Rose and Crown, the reputed site of Edward V's arrest
in 1483.

The Public Hall and Nos 2 to 24 (even), 24a, 26 and 28 form a group of which
Nos 14, 16 and 20 are of local interest.

Listing NGR: SP7881040414

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453098

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