41, 43 AND 45, HIGH STREET

SP 84 SE NEWPORT PAGNELL HIGH STREET

645/1/10020 Nos. 41, 43 and 45

GV II

Shops and living accommodation. C17 with mid-C19 refronting and C20 alterations and additions. Red brick, front and part of rear in Flemish bond with pale headers. Plain tile roof behind coped parapet. Brick stacks. Three storeys, 4 bays. Ground floor: on left (Pearces, bakers), a C19 shopfront with floriated consoles supporting large round-topped fascia and blind-box ends. Within, a modern pair of doors and slightly bowed paned shop window. To the right, plate-glass shop windows over a low plinth wall, with inset glazed doors. Fascia over. 1st floor: 20-pane sash windows with partly concealed boxes under rubbed pale buff brick flat arches. Plat band to the similar but 16-pane sash windows on the 2nd floor. Parapet and west gable end rebuilt. Rear: a complicated series of three unequal steeply-pitched C17 gables, all tiled, one extended beyond a 4-flue stack by a further hipped roof, also probably C17. Further additions of the 1970s. Interior: shop interiors modernised. A series of rooms on the upper floors within the C17 structure, but all direct historic evidence is presently covered up. History: A building on this medieval burgage plot first appears in the records for 1597, when it was a waggoner's inn. It later developed as a coaching inn, finally closing in 1823. A historic building at the centre of the town which retains a substantial amount of its C17 fabric.

Listing NGR: SP8768243930