Watlington Park
WATLINGTON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1059422
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Watlington Park
- Statutory Address:
- WATLINGTON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1059422
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Watlington Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATLINGTON PARK
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WATLINGTON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Watlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 70627 92550
Details
WATLINGTON SU79SW 3/113 Watlington Park 18/07/63
GV II*
Country House. Built c.1755 for John Tilson. English bond brick; hipped Welsh slate roof; internal brick stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Central 3-bay pedimented block, with lunette in tympanum. Stone Doric porch with triglyph frieze; late C19 double-leaf doors. Gauged red brick flat arches over sashes. Ashlar string course; modillioned eaves cornice. 4 roof dormers. Similar rear elevation and right side wall has canted bay. Interior: hall has marble floor and fireplace, and architectural trompe l'oeil decoration by Philip Tilden, 1921. Panelled doors, some set in bolection-moulded architraves. Panelled rooms to left have finely carved mid C18 fireplaces and plaster cornices. Drawing Room to right has fine marble fireplace; modillioned cornice on torus moulding; rococo plasterwork on ceiling wreathed in foliage, with swans in end panels; Ionic columns at both ends of room. Open well staircase with twisted balusters and ramped handrails. First floor has panelled rooms with plaster cornices, similar doors; early C19 marble fireplaces except C18 cast-iron grate to right. Dog-leg service stairs with turned balusters to rear left. Watlington Park was sold to John Tilson, son of the Under-Secretary of State, by the Stonors in 1753. (Christopher Hussey, Watlington Park, Country Life, Vol.CXXV, pp.81-21, 60-63; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.831-2; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.8, p.213).
Listing NGR: SU7062792550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247584
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1964), 213
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 831-2
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 125, (), 81-91 60-3
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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