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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552231

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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