Preshaw House
PRESHAW HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1095544
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Preshaw House
- Statutory Address:
- PRESHAW HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1095544
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Preshaw House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRESHAW HOUSE
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:
- PRESHAW HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Winchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Exton
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 57469 23273
Details
SU 52 SE EXTON 3/1 Preshaw House 7.2.52 II Mansion. E-shaped front block of c.1600, extended eastwards in the same style C18, parallel rear range (at a higher ground level) early C19 (by Nash), raised c1910 to form a similar elevation to the front. Flint walls with brick dressings; moulded plinth, 1st floor band with cornice moulding on brackets, eaves band with similar cornice moulding on brackets, plain pilasters to the ground-floor, Ionic pilasters to the 1st floor, hoodmoulds to attic windows in gables, verge to gable. The eastern half of the north front (C18) of brickwork in Flemish bond with the same details, the south elevation has brickwork in Flemish Garden Wall bond with similar details (but fewer pilasters). Tile roof, double pile (higher at the rear), with five main gables to the front and five (with some spacing) to the rear. The north front elevation has five gables (two C18 three of the 1st period), the fourth recessed and the fifth brought forward: each gable contains an attic window, with two windows on the ground and 1st floors separated by pilasters (Ionic above plain); the fourth gable has three divisions of which the eastern one is masked by a projecting two-storeyed gabled porch. Mullioned and transomed windows, replaced by sashes in the easternmost bay. The doorway is a Tudor arch beneath a hoodmould. This form of elevation is repeated on the west side as two gables and a porch, and beyond at the south side a large projection (the west end of the rear elevation). The wider rear elevation has five unequal gables, and extensions at each side, splayed (3-light) two-storeyed bays beneath the outer- most gables, sashes to the ground-floor (originally a single-storeyed elevation of the early C19) with mullioned end transomed windows to the 1st floor.
Listing NGR: SP6255725271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 146423
- 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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