THE ELMS INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES

THE ELMS INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES, LOWER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1091608
Date first listed:: 16-May-1952
List Entry Name:: THE ELMS INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: THE ELMS INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES, LOWER ROAD

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Date:: 1999-10-11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1091608
Date first listed:: 16-May-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:: THE ELMS INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: THE ELMS INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES, LOWER 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:: THE ELMS INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES, LOWER ROAD

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Havant (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 70065 06367

Details

SU 70 NW 4/23

HAVANT Bedhampton LOWER ROAD No 2 (The Elms), including front garden wall, gate piers, and gates. (Formerly listed as The Elms under Manor Road)

16.5.52 II* House. C18 Gothick with an early C19 extension built to accommodate a visit by the Duke of Wellington. Late C18, early C19. Stucco, with a slate roof. The tall centre part has a symmetrical front (east) of three storeys, three windows, and set back at each end are lower wings, of two storeys and attic, one window to the gabled front, the north side being now masked by the later forward extension, which comprises a tower and a windowless rectangular block (of about one and a half storeys) with top-lighting. The centre has a crenellated parapet and the openings have ogee heads (capped by decorative roundels) above the windows, which on the second floor have cills at the foot of the curves, and on the 1st and ground floor include Venetian lights on each side, also repeated on the south wing (with blank side panels); the walls are grooved with a rustication pattern. Sashes. The central doorway is of classical form, with a Tuscan entablature and Gothic triple attached columns; this is enclosed in a later simple classical porch with square columns, now walled-in with side windows and a plain doorway.

The tower has Gothick niches, and narrow corner pilasters, each with three shallow panels marked by circular designs and cusping. The front wall continues from the tower northwards, with a four oval-arched blind arcade and rusticating bands. This block encloses the chief feature of the house, the Wellington Room. This is a rectangular apartment, with four Ionic columns at the north (short) side, supporting an entablature which continues round the room as a decorative frieze, with Greek ornament. Above this frieze there is coving up to a flat ceiling, which has in the centre an octagonal opening, again with coving to the base of the top light. The lower walls have a dentilled band above three tiers of panelling, and a skirting; there are niches and floral decorations to enrich the interior (recently renovated). Front gate piers with pineapples, and a 'Tudor' side gate within a vail, also capped with pineapples.

Listing NGR: SU7013706384

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Legacy System number:: 135426
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.