Sulhamstead House Thames Valley Police Training College Thames Valley Police Training College (Sulhamstead House)
SULHAMSTEAD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117110
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Sulhamstead House Thames Valley Police Training College Thames Valley Police Training College (Sulhamstead House)
- Statutory Address:
- SULHAMSTEAD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117110
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Sulhamstead House Thames Valley Police Training College Thames Valley Police Training College (Sulhamstead House)
- Statutory Address 1:
- SULHAMSTEAD HOUSE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THAMES VALLEY POLICE TRAINING COLLEGE
- Statutory Address 3:
- THAMES VALLEY POLICE TRAINING COLLEGE (SULHAMSTEAD HOUSE)
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:
- SULHAMSTEAD HOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- THAMES VALLEY POLICE TRAINING COLLEGE
- Statutory Address:
- THAMES VALLEY POLICE TRAINING COLLEGE (SULHAMSTEAD HOUSE)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sulhamstead
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 64108 69302
Details
SULHAMSTEAD SULHAMSTEAD SU 66 NW 3/38 Thames Valley Police Training 25.10.51 College (Sulhamstead House) G.V. II
House, now police training centre. 1748, rebuilt in the early C19 with further alterations in 1852 and 1910. Painted stucco with hipped slate roofs. Central 3 storey 3 bay block with set back 2 storey wings. Plinth, first floor cill band, cornice, coped parapet, and paired end stacks to central block and wings. Central 2 storey, 3 bay tetrastyle Ionic portico with triangular pediment. Lead downpipes and rainwater heads. 9 bays; glazing bar sashes with architraves and cornices. Central enclosed porch and two 3-panelled doors with bracketed cornice. Rear similar without portico. North-east front of 4 bays. Low early C19 additions to south-west. Interior: largely 1910. Early C18 style panelled entrance hall with coupled Doric pilasters, screen of coupled Doric columns, and bifurcating staircase with balcony on to central landing. Other rooms with early C18 style panelling, fireplaces, and plaster ceilings. V.C.H. (Berks), Vol.3, pp. 306-7; B.O.E. (Berks), p.232.
Listing NGR: SU6410869302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 40018
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 232
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 306-307
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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