Chawton House
CHAWTON HOUSE, FORMER A32
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1093975
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Chawton House
- Statutory Address:
- CHAWTON HOUSE, FORMER A32
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1093975
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Chawton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAWTON HOUSE, FORMER A32
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:
- CHAWTON HOUSE, FORMER A32
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chawton
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 70879 37026
Details
SU 73 lilt CHAWTON FORMER A32 (OFF)
2/27 Chawton House
31.7.63 II*
Elizabethan and Jacobean mansion. c1580, extended c1655, with C18, mainly late C19 extensions, alterations and restoration. Walls of flint with stone dressings, hoodmoulds, mullioned and transomed windows, plinth, and a C18 brick parapet with panels above the openings. Gabled tiled roof. The original hall comprised a north-south hall with screens, a lobby with a 3-storeyed porch, and a north end cross-wing of 3 storeys, all remaining but substantially restored. The porch (a restoration) has a Tudor arch with coat of arms above. South elevation: (c1655) is 2-storeys and attic, with 3 gables with windows centred on the 2 outer, but with the middle having a window above a doorway and a (staircase) window at intermediate level. The walls are of red brickwork in English bond with stone dressings; coping to gables and parapet, hoodmoulds to mullioned and transomed windows, and plinth above a flint base. Casements. Moulded stone doorway (dated 1655). The other sides of the building, which include additions and changes, are a complex of projecting gabled units, of 2 and 3 storeys, in Jacobean style ( of all dates). There are many stacks of all periods, some with diagonal flues. Inside there are panelled rooms and a panelled staircase hall. Interior: the main room (hall) is panelled and has a 4-centred stone arch to the fireplace, with an iron fireback dated I K (John Knight) 1588. Ref. Country Life. 17.6.1903 and 2.2.1945.
Listing NGR: SU7087637028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 142294
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 17 June, (1903)
Country Life in 2 February, (1945)
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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