Description

BLEDLOW-CUM-SAUNDERTON BLEDLOW RIDGE ROAD
SP 70 SE
(BLEDLOW)
1/1 Old Wycombe Union School
building, Bledlow Homes
-

- II

Former workhouse and school, last used as a children's home. Late C18
and early C19. Red and vitreous brick with dentil eaves and hipped tile
roofs. U-plan, the far wing probably of earlier build than the long side
wings. 2 storeys. Far wing of 5 bays, altered, with 2 3-light barred
wooden casements to ground floor left, 2 similar casements to first
floor and 2 blind windows to ground floor right. Ground floor openings
have segmental heads of vitreous brick. Central double doors with
segmental head and white painted brick surround. Side wings are of
7 bays. Left wing has paired barred wooden casements to first floor,
the ground floor windows boarded up. Left bay is irregular with board
door in wide opening to ground floor and C20 glazed door above. Another
board door between bays 2 and 3; passage between right bays. All ground
floor openings have cambered heads. Right wing is irregular with altered
windows, some blind, some with C20 casements. Across the front of the
courtyard is a brick dwarf wall with cast iron railings and stone steps
to gate at left. C20 extensions to sides, single storey pebbledashed wing
to rear.

Listing NGR: SP7812202236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453529

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)