THE WOODCLYFFE HOSTEL

THE WOODCLYFFE HOSTEL, CHURCH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096091
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: THE WOODCLYFFE HOSTEL
Statutory Address:: THE WOODCLYFFE HOSTEL, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096091
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: THE WOODCLYFFE HOSTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE WOODCLYFFE HOSTEL, CHURCH STREET

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 WOODCLYFFE HOSTEL, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wargrave
National Grid Reference:: SU 78484 78601

Details

WARGRAVE

1110/0/10016 CHURCH STREET 17-APR-03 THE WOODCLYFFE HOSTEL

GV II

Working Men's Club, now in community use. 1905. Cole A. Adams for Harriette C. Smith. Red brick with stone dressings, brick plinth with blue brick coping. Pebble dash and terra cotta decoration. Hipped tiled roofs with brown brick chimney stacks. Two storeys plus attic; aligned N-S with facade to N side of Church Street, and lower range to rear. Domestic Revival inspired style. EXTERIORS: SOUTH facade with recessed ground floor beneath continuous wood cornice and central brick pier. To right, 3-light window with stone cill then entrance with part glazed wood panelled door in stone surround with moulded architrave and ogee arch to lintel. To left, 5-light bay window. First floor with 4 openings, 3 with 6/6 wooden sashes under gauged red brick lintels and with stone cills. Second opening from left is blind brick with ornate Baroque decoration in terra cotta and lettering that reads, 'THE WOODCLYFFE HOSTEL FOUNDED AD 1905'. To east, pair of decorative iron brackets supporting an iron rod from which hangs an oxidised copper sign with decorative border and lettering, 'THE WOODCLYFFE HOSTEL'. Above this floor a continuous pebble dash frieze with geometric patterns, then shallow wood cornice with dentil eaves. Hipped roof with central pair of gabled dormers each with pair of leaded light casements and a central sundial. To east, brick gate pier capped with stone coping and large stone ball. Similar frieze and cornice wrap around to front range of EAST elevation also with corbelled chimney breast at first floor. Flanking this, leaded lights within shouldered stone architraves, the larger one to the left reads 'exact position of antient light in old cottage which stood here until 1904'. 2-light sash windows. Paired angled brick chimney and flat roof dormer with 2 leaded lights to hipped roof. Further north, a single bay 3-storey tower with framed by brick pilasters and capped with high curved parapet. This bay with full height sash window lighting stair, with small leaded panes and rounded fanlight all under keystone. Above this paired smaller sashes also with leaded panes, pair to second floor with terra cotta aprons. To rear, lower range plainer with hipped slate roof, first floor brick band, tall 12/12 sashes to ground floor and paired sashes above. INTERIOR: Ground floor front room has large wood chimneypiece inset with many Delft tiles and cornice. Above this, main room panelled with similar cornice, smaller wood fireplace with Delft tiles, and to east a raised niche framed with wide ogee niche and with wood fireplace inset with decorative tiles. Prominent staircase with turned balusters and heavy turned newels continues to attic level. To rear former billiard room with herringbone wood floor and C20 inserted ceiling. Wood panelled doors, architraves and cornices throughout. Porcelain sinks at attic level. HISTORY: Funded by local benefactor Harriette C. Smith, an active promulgator of the Temperance Movement, who with her husband, William Smith funded several buildings in Wargrave including the Grade II Woodclyffe Hall around the corner. A plaque announces that the building was used as a V.A.D. Hospital from Dec. 1915-Feb. 1919, staffed by a Berkshire Branch of the British Red Cross Society. The Hostel replaced three cottages on the site and their former presence is noted by the inscription of the position of the 'ancient light in old cottage which stood here until 1904'.

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Legacy System number:: 490056
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.