Markham's Court, Market Square
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Description
Grade II, early-mid C19 barracks for the Bucks Yeomanry, now a warehouse
Grade II. Warehouse, formerly barracks. Early-mid C19. For the Bucks Yeomanry. Yellow brick in Flemish bond, hipped slate roof. Long rectangular range with attached stair and porch blocks to right side. 4-storey, 17-window main range. Front faces yard to north-east and has large central doorway with 4-panel, double-leaf doors, fanlight and round-arched head. Narrow 1-light windows to ground floor with short, segmental-arched heads. Slightly wider, 1-light windows to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors, all with chamfered brick surrounds and round-arched heads. Windows to ground and 1st floors either side of entrance bay are set in giant recesses with round-arched heads. Pairs of windows to entrance bay above door to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors and slightly smaller than the rest and more closely spaced. Storey band at 2nd-floor level divides front horizontally. 2nd floor windows are set in round arch-headed recesses. Chamfered brick eaves. 3-storey and attic stair block to right end, with single-slope slate roof and paired round arch-headed windows, behind 2-storey porch projecting in front with flat roof and canted corners, round arch-headed doorway to ground floor and 12-pane sash window to 1st floor with similar head; 4-panel door to 1st floor right side with fanlight and round-arched head. INTERIOR: stop-chamfered central open-well cantilevered stone stair from ground to 1st floors. Similar stairs to all floors in stair block. Both have plain iron balustrades and handrails. Some surviving gun racks. (B1).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
Grade II, early-mid C19 barracks for the Bucks Yeomanry, now a warehouse
Date Listed
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