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HORWOOD HOUSE, SERVICE WING, STABLE BLOCK, GATE PIERS AND WALLS TO FORECOURT

HORWOOD HOUSE, SERVICE WING, STABLE BLOCK, GATE PIERS AND WALLS TO FORECOURT, MURSLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1288825
Date first listed:: 28-May-1984
List Entry Name:: HORWOOD HOUSE, SERVICE WING, STABLE BLOCK, GATE PIERS AND WALLS TO FORECOURT
Statutory Address:: HORWOOD HOUSE, SERVICE WING, STABLE BLOCK, GATE PIERS AND WALLS TO FORECOURT, MURSLEY ROAD

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Date:: 2000-10-24
Reference:: IOE01/02711/27
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1288825
Date first listed:: 28-May-1984
List Entry Name:: HORWOOD HOUSE, SERVICE WING, STABLE BLOCK, GATE PIERS AND WALLS TO FORECOURT
Statutory Address 1:: HORWOOD HOUSE, SERVICE WING, STABLE BLOCK, GATE PIERS AND WALLS TO FORECOURT, MURSLEY ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HORWOOD HOUSE, SERVICE WING, STABLE BLOCK, GATE PIERS AND WALLS TO FORECOURT, MURSLEY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Little Horwood
National Grid Reference:: SP 79623 29542

Details

SP 72 NE LITTLE HORWOOD MURSLEY ROAD (south side)

3/68 Horwood House, service wing, stable block, gate piers and walls to forecourt.

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- II

Mansion, now used as training centre. Dated 1911 on rainwater heads. By Detmar Blow and Billerey for Frederick Denny. Thin pale brick, hand-made and imported from Holland, some stone dressings, tiled roof, tall brick chimneys with entablature tops. Jacobethan manor house. 2 storeys and attic, 5 bays. Brick plinth, moulded brick entablatures at first and second floor levels, outer and centre bays gabled. Stone mullion and transom windows, 3-light in outer bays, 4-light in bays 2 and 4, 2-light to centre over porch, bays 2 and 4 have 3-light windows in hipped dormers. Elongated oval windows to first floor between outer bays, that to left blind, projecting 2-storey porch to centre has stone Doric pilasters and triglyph entablature to ground floor, Corinthian pilasters, entablature and pediment to first floor. Entry has round arch with ornamental block motifs. On garden side outer bays have 2-storey semi-octagonal bay windows. Central stone doorcase of Doric columns, triglyph blocks and open pediment with carved swags. Interior has panelling and fireplaces in matching style. Lower 2-storey service wing to left has chimneys with square shafts set diagonally. Attached stable ranges around courtyard infront of service wing are of one storey, with thatched roofs, and 2-light stone mullion windows. N.W. range with tiled roof now contains 2 dwellings. Remainder of forecourt is enclosed by wall of similar brick with tiled coping. Pair of square plan brick gate piers flanking entry on N.E. side have round arched niches, stone benches and stone caps with segmental pediments.

Listing NGR: SP7962329542

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 398610
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.