Burnham Thorpe

Burnham Thorpe, Eton Wick Road, Eton College, Windsor, SL4 6ET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1031553
Date first listed:
08-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:
Burnham Thorpe
Statutory Address:
Burnham Thorpe, Eton Wick Road, Eton College, Windsor, SL4 6ET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1031553
Date first listed:
08-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:
Burnham Thorpe
Statutory Address 1:
Burnham Thorpe, Eton Wick Road, Eton College, Windsor, SL4 6ET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Burnham Thorpe, Eton Wick Road, Eton College, Windsor, SL4 6ET

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

District:
Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Eton
National Grid Reference:
SU9628778025

Details

SU 97 NE
851/4/10009

ETON
ETON WICK ROAD
Burnham Thorpe

GV
II

House. 1844-6; by James Deason. Flint with Bath stone dressings. Steeply pitched clay plain tile roofs with stone coping to gables. Ashlar stacks with square shafts and moulded cornices. Tudor Gothic style.

PLAN: Long range facing west with porch to right of centre, doorway on south side to road and rear backing onto cemetery. The north end might have been added later in the C19.

EXTERIOR: one storey and attic. Asymmetrical five-window west front, with two gables at the centre, the larger right-hand gable projects with a gabled porch projecting again to the right with a moulded four-centred arch doorway with a hoodmould; stone mullion two, three and four-light windows with leaded panes. At south end, gable end projects on left and chamfered four-centred arch doorway to right. Rear, east, backing onto cemetery, has gable to left, pair of gables at centre with another gable between set back; front range set back on right.

INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SU9628778025

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
468992
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 319

Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 04/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Burnham Thorpe

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