Audley's Wood

AUDLEY'S WOOD, A339

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1092713
Date first listed:
15-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Audley's Wood
Statutory Address:
AUDLEY'S WOOD, A339
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1092713
Date first listed:
15-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Audley's Wood
Statutory Address 1:
AUDLEY'S WOOD, A339

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
AUDLEY'S WOOD, A339

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

County:
Hampshire
District:
Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
Parish:
Cliddesden
National Grid Reference:
SU 64105 49949

Details

CLIDDESDEN A339 SU64NW 15/40 Audley's Wood

II

Country house. Circa 1880 in a NEO-Gothic-cum-Vernacular Revival style. Red brick with band to plain tiled roof. L-shaped with projecting entrance to left, double- depth main block to right and lawn service block function to right. Highly irregular. Entrance front: Step gabled cross-wing to entrance left with two very shallow gabled cross-wings on main block to right of centre, that to right lower than the main ridge. Decorated barge-boards with pendants and tilt hung gables. Many irregular ridge- stacks, mostly diagonal with oversailing cornices. Low and shallow re-entrant projection on right return - front of entrance projection, with barge-board semi-dormer. Oriel of wood, octagonal, with octagonal conical roof and finial also on right return-front of entrance projection. Entrance projects as porte-cochere with 2- centred arches at sides and two smaller arches to front with Y-tracery. 2 storeys and some attics garrets. Irregular finestration of wood-framed casements. 2 storey projection to front of 2 storeys with hipped pyramidal hipped roof. Garden Front: Roof Circa 1900 conservatory with gables containing Mullioned Diocletian windows to garden. 2 bow windows with balustrades above to side. Bow with pedimented porch on end. Extension to left with balustraded bay. Interior: Various unpainted features including panelling and fireplace with C17 Dutch (?) still-life in one room; wooden fire-place with date 1682 in living hall; and parts of fire-place of early C17 in drawing room. Staircase unpainted, 3-flight square-open well with long first flight. Ramped flattish rail, mitred over columnar foot nave + 3 balusters pin tread, with square hinges, columnar flanked by iron- twist. Carved cheek-pieces and corniced tread-ends; decorated string. Stair separated from living hall by 4 pannelled arches. Plastered barrel-vault to living hall with Ministrel's gallery and C17-style stair at far end. Garden Room; Marble columnar arched screen, fire-place at far end of room in bay. conservatory: now lined in fibre-board, hiding exposed steel trusses on marble (?) columns, a structure which appears to be complete but is now largely hidden.

Listing NGR: SU6372148930

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Legacy System number:
139279
Legacy System:
LBS

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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