Boots Optician is a Grade II listed building in the Bracknell Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1972. House, shop. 5 related planning applications.
Boots Optician
- WRENN ID
- late-hearth-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bracknell Forest
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1972
- Type
- House, shop
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 September 2024 to update the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
SU86NE 674-1/15/135
BRACKNELL HIGH STREET (North side) No 36
(Formerly listed as Boots Optician, previously listed as: HIGH STREET (North side) Premises occupied by Ginger's Greengrocery Delicatessen)
20/12/72
II
Hall house, now shop. Early C15, re-faced C18, altered and extended late C20. MATERIALS: timber frame encased in painted render. Old tile hipped roof.
PLAN: formerly L-plan of 4 x 2 framed bays, now irregular with rear extension.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Chimney with clay pot and large base projecting from right hand gable. Sash windows with glazing bars. Black painted plinth, boxed eaves. Entrance (south) front: Symmetrical 3-bays. Sash windows on first floor. Two, C20 shop windows with pair of entrance doors between, linked with large fascia board above.
INTERIOR: wide, plain joists visible on ground floor in right hand section. Jowled posts and large arched braces on first floor. First and fourth roof trusses are exposed and have redundant crown posts. Middle truss, probably central to former hall, has arched brace collar. Wattle and daub remains in second roof truss. Very wide rafters throughout. Old, wide plank floors over part of first floor.
Detailed Attributes
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