Mount Tabor House
MOUNT TABOR HOUSE, LEIGHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115962
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Tabor House
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNT TABOR HOUSE, LEIGHTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-10-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/07710/16
- Rights:
- © Mr Stewart Martin Shaw. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115962
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Tabor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNT TABOR HOUSE, LEIGHTON ROAD
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:
- MOUNT TABOR HOUSE, LEIGHTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wingrave with Rowsham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 87177 19049
Details
SP81 NE WINGRAVE WITH ROWSHAM LEIGHTON ROAD
8/128 Mount Tabor House
GV II
School, formerly mansion known as Wingrave Manor House. Circa 1870-80. Probably built for Rothschilds, leased to Stewart Freeman family. Red brick to ground floor, half-timbering with whitewashed roughcast infill above. Tiled roof with some fishscale patterning, brick chimneys with pilasters. Picturesque. Main part of house is of 2 storeys with 2 bays projecting to left and wide bay set back to right. Left bays have jettied first floors and overhanging upper gables with deep coves and cut brackets. Irregular leaded casements with moulded wooden mullions and transoms. Right bay of projection has porch with large wooden shell hood on carved scroll brackets over door. Tile-hung spire above this bay. Bay set back to right has similar casements that to ground floor in wooden surround with panelled pilasters, cornice hood on brackets and large scroll brackets to sides. Return walls are also gabled with canted bay and oriel windows. Service wing to left with 3-storey end block, another range at right angles to rear. Interior: hall has wooden panelling,depressed arches on fluted Corinthian pilasters, Jacobethan carved wooden fireplace, and staircase with C18-style turned wooden balusters and Doric column newel posts. Large room on ground floor has walls with moulded panel motifs and entablature, heavily embossed ceiling paper and elaborate doorcases with entablatures on fluted Corinthian columns. Similar surround to bay window and fireplace, the latter with elaborate plaster over-mantel and fan motif to ceiling.
Listing NGR: SP8717719049
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350877
- 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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