Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former Douai School
Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former Douai School, Abbey Gardens, Upper Woolhampton, RG7 5TZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117269
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former Douai School
- Statutory Address:
- Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former Douai School, Abbey Gardens, Upper Woolhampton, RG7 5TZ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117269
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former Douai School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former Douai School, Abbey Gardens, Upper Woolhampton, RG7 5TZ
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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:
- Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former Douai School, Abbey Gardens, Upper Woolhampton, RG7 5TZ
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 57736 68008
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/01/2020
SU 56 NE
3/14
WOOLHAMPTON
UPPER WOOLHAMPTON
Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former Douai School
(Formerly listed as Gatehouse and Flanking Blocks at Douai School)
GV
II
Gatehouse and flanking school buildings. 1893-5 by F A Walters in a neo-Gothic style. Red brick with Bath stone dressings, plinth, corbel table and coped battlemented parapet; roof not visible. Free Perpendicular style.
Gatehouse tower: three storeys. First and second floor windows with two cusped lights, those on second floor arched with hoodmoulds, flanking two canopied niches with figures. Central moulded four-centered archway with hoodmould, and carved coats of arms to each side above. Two short brick walls projecting to each side with stone coping, square piers, and finials with carved coats of arms topped by lamps.
Left-hand block: red brick with stone dressings and brick cill course; tiled roof with central ridge stack and parapetted gabled semi-dormer to left with casement. Two and a half storeys. Three two-light windows on each floor; first floor two-light four-centered arched window to left with transom and Y-tracery.
Right-hand block: red brick with cill courses; tiled roof, and two gables with planted timbers and casements. Two storeys and attic. Two canted bays rising to first floor with coped parapets, and mullioned and transomed windows. These buildings were built originally for St. Mary's College.
Listing NGR: SU5773668008
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39689
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 312
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 156
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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