Kennet Orley
KENNET ORLEY, WOOLHAMPTON HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117271
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Kennet Orley
- Statutory Address:
- KENNET ORLEY, WOOLHAMPTON HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117271
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Kennet Orley
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENNET ORLEY, WOOLHAMPTON HILL
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:
- KENNET ORLEY, WOOLHAMPTON HILL
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 57454 67015
Details
WOOLHAMPTON WOOLHAMPTON HILL SU 56 NE (south side) 3/26 Kennet Orley
GV II
House. 1909 by Sir Mervyn Macartney in Free William and Mary style. Red brick with plat band brick quoins, gauged window heads with alternating projecting voussoirs, and keystones. Deep eaves with panelled soffit to hipped tile roof; 3 later hipped dormers with casements, and 3 asymmetrically placed panelled stacks. T-plan with one storey service wing to right. 2 storeys and attic; 5 bays with slight width differences between windows, leaded 2-light mullioned first floor windows, and leaded ground floor cross windows. Central rusticated porch has concave sides with round windows, 6-panelled door with radial fanlight, and cornice to flat roof. Garden front: roof hipped in 2 stages, with 3 later hipped dormers and C20 square dormer to left. 3 canted bays with leaded mullioned windows; central ground floor loggia with 4 Tuscan columns, 2 cross windows behind either side of central French casements, and segmental headed casements with keystones in right and left hand return walls. South-east front: 3 bays. Doors, porch and balcony are later additions. Interior: original plan, including staircase, remains; alterations include some later fireplaces and mouldings. This house was designed by the architect for himself. BOE, Berkshire, p. 312; The English House 1860-1914, G. Stamp, 1980, The Building Centre Trust, p.27 (including plan).
Listing NGR: SU5745467015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39695
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 312
Stamp, G, The English House 1860-1914, (1980), 27
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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