CAVERSHAM PARK (BBC RECORDS)

CAVERSHAM PARK (BBC RECORDS), PEPPARD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113560
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:: CAVERSHAM PARK (BBC RECORDS)
Statutory Address:: CAVERSHAM PARK (BBC RECORDS), PEPPARD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1113560
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1978
List Entry Name:: CAVERSHAM PARK (BBC RECORDS)
Statutory Address 1:: CAVERSHAM PARK (BBC RECORDS), PEPPARD ROAD

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:: CAVERSHAM PARK (BBC RECORDS), PEPPARD ROAD

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 72404 76265

Details

PEPPARD ROAD 1. 5128 Caversham Park (BBC Records ) SU 77 NW 15/551 II 2. Rebuilt, possibly by J T Crews, after the fire of 1850 for William Crawshay, a Welsh iron master, who had bought the estate in 1838. Of the early C18 house of the Earl of Cadogan nothing remains, and very little remains of the works by Mr Acres and Capability Brown in the Park. 3 storeys and basement. Ashlar with iron frame. Ground floor rusticated with Doric frieze over. Piano nobile above. 7 bays, outer wider with tripartite windows, divided by engaged Composite columns (end piers). Dentil cornice, balustraded parapet. Glazing bar sash windows with raised surrounds and bracket cills, pedimented on piano nobile (alternately triangular and segmental). Flanking set back Ionic colonnades of 1840 by J T Crews. 9 bays each with balustrade over, returned to east, orangery to west. Various extensions to east (including chapel) and west (former school rooms etc) and also to north-west which has a classical Doric portico to linked lodge dated 1890. To rear of main house is an Ionic Porte Cochere (now a reception room). Interior retains considerable decoration of the post-1850 house. Large central hall with 2 balustraded galleries, Doric on ground floor, Ionic on 1st floor. The best room is behind Crews West colonnade - arcaded with columned screen to west and apse colonnade to east. Elaborate decoration in the principal drawing room with enriched doorpieces and so on. Chapel altered. A landmark for the railway.

Listing NGR: SU7240476265

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Legacy System number:: 39126
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.