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23-25 High Street, Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Historic Building Investigation and Recording |
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Oxford Archaeological Unit unpublished report series
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June 2008. Oxford Archaeology carried out a building recording on 23-25 High Street, Marlow. The property originally consisted of two timber-framed structures. Firstly a two bay open hall building at the south end later a single bay floored building adjacent to the north, both with queen strut and clasped purlin trusses supporting ridged roofs. A large proportion of the timber-framing survives on the first floor but the southern truss of the south building has been replaced by a brick wall. The north building has no surviving southern truss and may have been built against the north building. The two buildings were later connected by a doorway cut through a truss and the roof of the north building was raised to match the south one. A floor was inserted in the south building perhaps in the later 16th century. In the late 18th or earlier 19th century the front walls were replaced with a unified and higher brick facade with parapet and sash windows. At around the same time a new higher front slope was added to the roof and new extensions with ridged roofs at right angles to the main roof were added to the rear, a small south gable being the earliest of these. The rear (east) wall was heightened with additional framing but elements of the medieval wallplates are and some early wattle and daub infill panels are preserved within it. The rest of the early infill of the framing has gone although there are grooves for staves in the ties and collars of the southern trusses. All the trusses contain later studwork for supporting lath and plaster and some of this consists of reused hardwood including some ovolo moulded 17th century window jambs and a few other moulded pieces. On the ground floor less early fabric survives. The only evidence of the early framing is a main post at the north-east corner of the south building, a plate supporting the floor of the north building adjacent to this post has a rebate for a doorhead showing the location of an early rear entrance. |
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S Underdown
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Oxford Archaeology
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2008
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Marlow |
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Buckinghamshire |
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Buckinghamshire |
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England |
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Grid Reference: 484899, 186499 (Easting, Northing)
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oxfordar1-51901 |
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This report was uploaded to the OASIS system by the named Publisher. The report has been transferred into the ADS Library for public access and to facilitate future research.
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13 Jul 2022 |
