Amport House

AMPORT HOUSE, FURZEDOWN LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1093277
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Amport House
Statutory Address:
AMPORT HOUSE, FURZEDOWN LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1093277
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Amport House
Statutory Address 1:
AMPORT HOUSE, FURZEDOWN LANE

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:
AMPORT HOUSE, FURZEDOWN LANE

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

County:
Hampshire
District:
Test Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Amport
National Grid Reference:
SU 29714 44071

Details

SU 2944 AMPORT FURZEDOWN LANE

8/1 Amport House

II

Country mansion. 1857, by William Burn. Brick walls with stone dressings, and a steep slate roof. The design resembles the English style of c1600, the elevations being regular but not symmetrical; the tall house-block is of 2 storeys with attic, and the extensive service wing of 1 storey and attic, in each case the upper floors have semi-dormer windows. The south (garden) front is symmetrical, with an added bay at the east side, of 1.3.1:1 windows. The centre part has 1/2 dormers with gables, and there are attic windows in the side gables: beneath each gable is a 2-storeyed splayed bay. Walls of yellow brickwork in English bond with flush Bath stone dressings: the gables have small finials, with a stepped verge at each foot containing a finial, 2nd floor stone band (of classical cornice), 1st floor band (of a Gothic drip-mould), flush quoins, chamfered reveals, mullions and transoms, plinth: open strapwork at the top of the bays. Casements, 3 French windows in the middle. The east (entrance) elevation has a gable to the south side and a narrow bay of 4 storeys set back at the north side (also gabled): 1.3.1 windows. The details are similar, and at the south side there is a porch, in a Tuscan Order, of 2 columns 2 pilasters, an arched entrance and ½ glazed door, the columns being enriched at top and bottom by strapwork. The service block comprises ranges round a courtyard, with a link to the house; the elevation treatment is similar but without ornamentation. Inside the building there is a long gallery behind the staterooms, lined with 'Jacobean' panelling, and having a fireplace with a classical overmantel: opposite is a flight of stairs in the same style and at each ½ landing a large-window formed of many lights, each containing painted escutcheons (of the Paulet family): the gallery has a set of early C19 paintings of birds. The main rooms have several details which came from an earlier (c18) house, including 4 fireplaces, in one room a set of panels, 3 doors and wood cornice. Behind the staircase is a top-lit billiard room, with original furnishings.

Listing NGR: SU2969644083

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
140008
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 19 Hampshire,

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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