A 19th-century former butcher shop with its own slaughterhouse has been given a Grade II listing by Historic England.

The building at 17 Waddesdon High Street has been listed on the protected buildings register because of its rare architectural and historical interest and well-preserved interior and exterior structure.

It was established as a butcher shop in 1899 after being bought by George Hall Newman, who added a stable block, barn and slaughterhouse to the property in the following years.

During the 1900s, slaughterhouses at the back of butcher shops were licensed by local authorities to facilitate the killing of animals before their sale.

These became less common after the Slaughterhouses Acts of 1954 and 1958 as more shared spaces were provided by the local authorities.

Mr Newman, who was born in Wilstone, Hertfordshire, and had been a master wheelwright and a carpenter before starting his own business, passed the reins to his son Ewart in 1907.

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The building – which retains its late-19th-century style sash windows and canopies – and the family business were then bought by Stewart Adams in 1926 before it ceased trading in 1974.

The yellow stock brick build, timber shopfront and half-hipped slate roof appear to have been very minorly altered since construction, with only the name on the sign and the paint scheme believed to have changed over the years.

A two-storey combined stables and slaughterhouse area is similarly intact and includes wooden troughs, brick floors and iron meat rails and hooks.

Historic England’s Grade II listing indicates that a building is “of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve it”, and means that listed building consent must be obtained to make any changes that could affect the structure's special interest status.