The Bower House

THE BOWER HOUSE, ORANGE TREE HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1079873
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1952
Statutory Address:
THE BOWER HOUSE, ORANGE TREE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1079873
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1952
Statutory Address 1:
THE BOWER HOUSE, ORANGE TREE HILL

Location

Statutory Address:
THE BOWER HOUSE, ORANGE TREE HILL

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Havering (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ5120692659

Details

ORANGE TREE HILL
1.
5017 Havering-atte-Bower
The Bower House
TQ 59 SW 9/4 4.7.52.
I.
2.
1729 by Henry Flitcroft. Small country house. Red brick, Welsh slate roof
with modillion cornice; 2 storeys and attics. Entrance front 1-3-1 double-hung
sashes in reveals with flat arches. Slight central projection with doorway
composed of architrave, pulvinated frieze and pediment on enriched consoles.
Garden front has two circa 1800 wings with canted bay windows, central doorway
up steps with iron railings has surround of rusticated Roman Doric pilasters
entablature with key blocks and pediment. Central pediment to both fronts.
Country Life 17.3.44 describes the interior before the recent alterations.
Staircase paintings by Thornhill are particularly important. The house is
notable as Flitcroft's first commission.

Listing NGR: TQ5120692659

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
201635
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in 17 March, (1944)

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Ordnance survey map of The Bower House

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