Shottesbrooke Park
SHOTTESBROOKE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117448
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Shottesbrooke Park
- Statutory Address:
- SHOTTESBROOKE PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1117448
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Shottesbrooke Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHOTTESBROOKE PARK
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:
- SHOTTESBROOKE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shottesbrooke
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 84079 77212
Details
SHOTTESBROOKE SHOTTESBROOKE PARK SU 87 NW 8/36 Shottesbrooke Park 11.04.72 G.V. II*
Country house in parkland. Late C16, mostly re-built late C18, 'Gothicised' early C19. South-west wing removed, and south-west front re-modelled in 1958 by Viscount Esher (Lionel Brett). Brick with some diamond patterning from the older work; stuccoed dressings. Low pitch slate roof. Formerly H-plan, now rectangular. 3 storeys and attics. Rendered plinth, moulded cornice, embattled parapet. Octagonal turrets at the corners, terminating in embattlements rising above parapet level. Cornice broken forward around turrets. Sash windows with glazing bars and brick arches under hoodmoulds. Windows on east front are similar but with stuccoed, eared, architrave frames. Entrance (east) front: Centre section of 3 bays with one bay projecting wings each side, 'Gothic' entrance loggia across the Whole width of the centre section: three, 4-centred arched openings and behind a central 2-panelled entrance door in panelled doorcase with broken pediment over. A blind opening either side of entrance door painted black with glazing bars painted on. South front of 3 bays. West (garden) front, remodelled in similar style. Interior: C16 wall panelling in bedrooms on second floor, re-positioned during the C18 rebuilding. In the bedroom on the north-east corner of the same floor is a blocked round-headed window from the C16 building. Third bedroom on second floor has cast iron hob fireplace with hot water tanks, with a marble surround. Bedroom on south-east corner has marble fireplace with foliage enrichment, reeded pilasters and cornice; centre piece a basket of flowers and a moulded marble shelf. The first and second bedrooms on the first floor have C18 wall panelling. Late C18 staircase with plain square newels and turned balusters; panelled dado. The original staircase and a fine C18 plastered ceiling in the former drawing room, were removed with the south-west wing. V.C.H. vol.III p.164. B.O.E. (Berkshire) p.217.
Listing NGR: SU8407977212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41125
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 217
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 164
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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