Elstree School, Woolhampton House Woolhampton House
ELSTREE SCHOOL, WOOLHAMPTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117267
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Elstree School, Woolhampton House Woolhampton House
- Statutory Address:
- ELSTREE SCHOOL, WOOLHAMPTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117267
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Elstree School, Woolhampton House Woolhampton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELSTREE SCHOOL, WOOLHAMPTON HOUSE
- Statutory Address 2:
- WOOLHAMPTON 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:
- ELSTREE SCHOOL, WOOLHAMPTON HOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- WOOLHAMPTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 57683 67525
Details
WOOLHAMPTON UPPER WOOLHAMPTON SU 56 NE 3/20 Elstree School, 9.9.69 Woolhampton House
GV II*
House, now school. Cl7 and C18 with circa 1900 alterations and additions. Southern block, south front: C18 with circa 1900 alterations. Red brick with grey headers, ashlar plinth with banded rustication, stone window dressings and plat bands. Deep moulded wooden eaves cornice to hipped tile roof with 2 stacks. 3 storeys; 9 bays, glazing bar sashes with moulded architraves. Centre 3 bays slightly projecting. Central first floor tripartite sash with garlands, keystone and segmental pediment on scrolled brackets; flat hoods over second and eighth first floor windows. Ground floor windows with key- stones, and central tripartite sash. 2 storey,one bay addition to left with plinth and coped parapet. East front: 3 bays. Ground and first floors projec- ting; ground floor of ashlar with cornice; C20 first floor with plat band at cill level and coped parapet. West front: 5 bays. Circa 1900 projecting ground floor, ashlar with cornice and parapet, balustraded above entrance to right. Recessed porch with 2 Doric columns in antis, and two 5 panelled doors behind with rectangular fanlight flanked by 2 windows with keystones. North- eastern block, east front: circa 1900. Red brick with stone dressings, plat bands, deep moulded wooden eaves cornice to flat roof with one stack. 3 storeys; 5 bays, glazing bar sashes with moulded architraves. 3 storey, 3 bay projection to left. First floor windows with balustraded balconies and eared architraves, windows with flat hoods flanking central window with segmental pediment. Wing projecting at 45 degrees from right hand bays; red brick with grey headers, stone dressings, parapet and hipped tiled roof. One storey, coupled glazing bar sashes with architraves, central French casements with Doric doorcase consisting of half columns supporting segmental pediment with keystone. North-western block, west front: C18 with circa 1900 alterations. Red brick with stone dressings, plat band between first and second floors, cornice, coped parapet. Tiled gam- brel roof with 2 ridge stacks and 4 dormers with segmental pediments. 3 storeys and attic; 7 bays, glazing bar sashes with architraves. Flat hoods on first floor windows, small circular windows between second and third and fifth and sixth bays;on first and second floors. Doorway in second bay from right with 2-panelled door, rectangular fanlight, architrave and flat hood on scrolled brackets. 2 storey wing projecting to left of brick with plat band, cornice, coped parapet and hipped roof. Left-hand return wall of 3 bays; glazing bar sashes with architraves. Interior: mainly Circa 1900, including staircase, fireplaces and panelling. In 1.4 Lewis Vulliamy worked at Woolhampton House. Landscaped gardens with 2 small lakes. BOE, Berkshire, p. 312; Berkshire Architectural Guide, Betjeman and Piper, Murray, 1949, p.156.
Listing NGR: SU5768367525
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39684
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 312
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 156
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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