Description

BUCKINGHAM

SP6933 CASTLE STREET
879-1/6/34 (South side)
03/04/73 Nos.22 AND 23

GV II

Pair of shops and dwellings, now offices. Mid-C18, altered C19
and C20. Brick with hipped C20 plain-tile roofs behind
parapet. Double-depth plan. 3-storey, 4-window range. Ground
floor is composed of 2 wide, shallow, canted bay shop windows
under continuous fascia, with glazing bars and glazed doors to
far left and far right on continuous low York stone plinth.
Fascia is supported by unfluted, Tuscan columns either end and
to centre and has pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. C19
sash windows to 1st and 2nd floors with painted stone sills
and key blocks to flat-arched heads. Jambs and heads of
windows are of fine orange brick, walling otherwise of blue or
overburnt brick in header bond. Storey band and cornice band
in same fine orange brick. Plain coped parapet of flared
headers in header bond. Louvred openings to middle of shop bay
windows for basements.
INTERIOR: No.23 has stair from basement to attic with
continuous stop-chamfered newels and column-on-vase balusters.
Basement has stop-chamfered spine beam.

Listing NGR: SP6954933937

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571634

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6