25, High Street

SP 8607 569/10/253 21.12.67

WENDOVER HIGH STREET (South side) Number 25

GV II

House, at one time part of a single range, with No.27. C16 altered. Timber framed with brick infill and some refacing to ground floor. LH bay has close studding and plaster infill, below projecting 1st floor. Old tile roof, tall brick chimney. Restored timber framed gable over carriageway to LH, with a modern 2-light leaded casement. Built into flank wall in arch is a roughly shaped stone pedestal believed to be a stoup from a church. 2-storeys, 3 bays, 3-light mullioned and transomed leaded windows to centre and RH first floor and RH bay of ground floor. 6-panel door to LH of centre, with small canted bay window on LH, with leaded glazing. INTERIOR:Ground floor: front rooms, now one, have large fireplaces; 2 posts at right end have remnants of painting. C18/early-C19 dog-leg stair at rear with columnar lintel and wall-painting to adjacent wall and posts depicting coloured stylised foliage and repeat geometrical design. Principal and common rafters to roof. [RCHM I p.307 MON. 19 (part). F W Reader, Wall-paintings of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries recently discovered in Bosworth House, Wendover, Bucks, Archaeol. Assoc., 1934, pp77-97.]

Listing NGR: SP8679207778