OSBERT HOUSE

Osbert House, Notley Place, off Peppard Road, Reading

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113556
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1957
List Entry Name:: OSBERT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: Osbert House, Notley Place, off Peppard Road, Reading

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Date:: 2003-05-08
Reference:: IOE01/10227/17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113556
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:: OSBERT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: Osbert House, Notley Place, off Peppard Road, Reading

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:: Osbert House, Notley Place, off Peppard Road, Reading

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

District:: Reading (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 71781 75834

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/06/2014

SU 7175 10/279 5128

OFF PEPPARD ROAD (North-West Side), NOTLEY PLACE, Osbert House

(Formerly listed as No 91 (Caversham Hall) PEPPARD ROAD (North-West Side) and No 91 (Caversham Hill) SURLEY ROW)

22.3.57.

II GV

Early C19. Large 3 storey painted stucco villa, altered, with unusual 2 storey portico and verandah to south. Coupled Doric columns with entablature and low balustrade over. 1st floor verandah has slender coupled columns. Moulded cornice below 2nd floor, window cills with upright cresting along eaves. Smaller cornice and blocking course over 2nd floor and hipped slate roof. 3 windows on 2nd floor with either drip moulds or architraves, broken by shutters. 6-light transomed windows to ground and 1st floors. C20 8 panel doors in centre in plain raised surround. Later C19 extension to right - a 2 storey angled bay - and a further modern 3 storey brick extension to right. Interior arranged circa 1920s with oak panelling and dividing balustered staircase. The house is approached by a short avenue of lime trees from Peppard Road.

Listing NGR: SU7178175834

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Legacy System number:: 39120
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.