Baylis House Including Forecourt Walls and Pavilions Adjoining to North East

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SU 98 SE SLOUGH STOKE POGES LANE (west side)

2/1 Baylis House Including Forecourt Walls And Pavilions Adjoining To North-east (formerly listed 29.9.50 as Baylis House and outbuildings)

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House, forecourt walls, and pavilions, now management centre. Circa 1695, possibly by Dean Hascard with alterations and additions in 1725-6 by Thomas Rowland, north-west wing, some internal alterations, forecourt walls and pavilions attributed to John James of 1733-5, and further alterations in circa 1750, the early C19, and 1954 when the 1726 top storey was removed after a fire. House; south-east block: red brick with hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. Entrance front: gauged brick window heads and giant order of pilaster strips at ends and flanking slightly projecting centre 3 bays; sunken semi circular panels above ground floor windows, plat band, wooden dentil eaves cornice with central 3 bay triangular pediment, coped parapet, lead downpipes, and 4 ridge stacks off-centre to left and right. 7 bays, centre 3 narrower; glazing bar sashes with small panes, 2 on ground floor to left sealed and panelled over inside. Central paired half glazed doors with rectangular overlight; doorcase consisting of brick pilasters with rendered blocked rustication, blank panel in architrave above, and console brackets supporting dentil cornice which breaks forwards at ends. Garden front: similar but without semi circular panels above ground floor windows. 2 central half glazed doors with rectangular overlight and early C18 doorcase consisting of plain architrave and console brackets supporting triangular pediment. Venetian window lighting staircase in light well to north-west. North-west block: red brick with hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. Entrance front: gauged brick window heads, plat band, moulded brick cornice, coped parapet, and 3 stacks. 4 bays, glazing bar sashes with small panes. Garden front: 3 bays with first floor blind window to left. 6 bay north-west front. Interior: largely early C18 but with some later alterations. Entrance hall with black and white flagged floor, fielded panelling; doorcases with lugged architraves, pulvinated frieze, dentil cornices, and panelled reveals; fireplace with shouldered architrave and panelled overmantel with dentil cornice; large arch to staircase hall with imposts and keystone. Dog-leg staircase to north-west with C19 wrought iron balustrade and fielded wainscot panelling. Ground floor front room to left with re-ordered fielded panelling; doorcase with lugged architrave, pulvinated frieze with bay leaf ornament, and broken triangular pediment with Cartouche and Godolphin shield in tympanum; fireplace with carved shells and foliage, and console brackets supporting carved cornice. Present library contains 3 bay Ionic colonnade with fluted columns, quilloche ornament on soffits of beams, and rich plaster frieze and cornice. Further panelling and fireplaces on both floors. Forecourt walls and pavilions: attributed to John James of 1733-5. 2 walls: approximately 2.5 metres high and projecting approximately 40 metres to north-east of house, breaking back with quadrant corners. 6 bays of blind arcading at south-west ends and 3 bays at north-east ends, with gauged brick piers, arches, imposts and keystones. 6-panelled door in arch of north-west door near house, and C20 wrought iron gate in arch of south-east wall near house. 2 pavilions: red and grey brick with stone dressings and pyramidal slate roofs. Square of Slough, plan at north-east ends of forecourt walls. 2 storeys. Each pavilion has 3-bay blind arcading on inner face with gauged brick piers, arches, imposts and keystones; central arch on north-west pavilion has been raised at a later date and an arched sash inserted. Each has coped clasping buttress on outer corner, plat band, stone eaves cornice, and globe finial to roof. South-west pavilions has later stack to north-east. Small first floor sashes on inner faces and to north-east. The house was built for Dr. Henry Godolphin, Provost of Eton, in 1708. The First Lord Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor 1793-1801, died here in 1805. V.C.H. (Bucks), Vol. 3, p.304; B.O.E.(Bucks), p.240; The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973, p.145; The Story of Slough, Judith Hunter, Local Heritage Books, 1983, pp.47-8.

Listing NGR: SU9694780868

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Sources

Books and journals
Maxwell, F, The History of Slough, (1973), 145
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, (1960), 240
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908), 304
Hunter, J, The Story of Slough, (1983)

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