MAGNA CARTA HOUSE

MAGNA CARTA HOUSE, MAGNA CARTA LANE, MAGNA CARTA ISLAND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117646
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: MAGNA CARTA HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MAGNA CARTA HOUSE, MAGNA CARTA LANE, MAGNA CARTA ISLAND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117646
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: MAGNA CARTA HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MAGNA CARTA HOUSE, MAGNA CARTA LANE, MAGNA CARTA ISLAND

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MAGNA CARTA HOUSE, MAGNA CARTA LANE, MAGNA CARTA ISLAND

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wraysbury
National Grid Reference:: SU 99904 73005

Summary

Original house 1834, built by George Simon Harcourt to commemorate the sealing signing of Magna Carta.

History

Magna Carta House was built by George Simon Harcourt in 1834 to commemorate the sealing of Magna Carta.

Magna Carta, which means ‘Great Charter’, was sealed at Runnymede on 15th June 1215. This was an agreement between King John and his barons and clergy which, for the first time, made the monarch subject to the laws of the land. It also gave free men the right to justice and a fair trial. Over the subsequent 800 years it has influenced many constitutional documents including the United States’ Bill of Rights.

Runnymede today is a memorial landscape to the on-going struggle for democracy and liberty.

Details

Original house 1834, built by George Simon Harcourt to commemorate the sealing of Magna Carta. Small irregular stone house, 'Norman' style, many gables, open porch. High pitched Welsh slate roofs, cylindrical stone chimneys. Windows, round headed, chamfered and moulded surrounds, some paired under drip moulds. Large extension, early C20, similar style, painted brick walls, Welsh slate roofs, similar pitch matching chimneys. Two storeys, irregular fenestration closely related to original. Interior: much imported Jacobean panelling of good quality. A little later stained glass. Stone chimney pieces, one round arched, one square and hooded. Octagonal fixed wooden table with turned legs with circular commemorative stone let into top, situated in Magna Carta Room.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/06/2015

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Legacy System number:: 40701
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.