PREBENDAL HOUSE SCHOOL

PREBENDAL HOUSE SCHOOL, PARSONS FEE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1117941
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: PREBENDAL HOUSE SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: PREBENDAL HOUSE SCHOOL, PARSONS FEE

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Date:: 2001-01-18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1117941
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: PREBENDAL HOUSE SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: PREBENDAL HOUSE SCHOOL, PARSONS FEE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PREBENDAL HOUSE SCHOOL, PARSONS FEE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Aylesbury
National Grid Reference:: SP 81659 13882

Details

1. 799 PARSON'S FEE (North Side) The Prebendal House School SP 8113 NE 1/51 7.4.52.

II*

2. C18 altered. Three-storeys. Rendered strings at first and second floor levels. Moulded cornice. Hipped slate roof. The entrance front facing churchyard has five windows and narrow panels flanking central window to upper floors. Two three light windows on ground floor and two narrow windows flanking door and under panels on upper floors. Eight-panel central door in panelled reveal with architrave surround, curved frieze, moulded cornice and central key-block with bedmould of cornice broken forward over. Architrave has rusticated blocks. Central porch of two Ionic columns, wall pilasters and entablature with carved frieze carved with oak leaf pattern, bracketed cornice and pediment. The garden front has flanking C19 bays formerly with central porch between, of engaged Doric columns and entablature with triglyph frieze and dentilled cornice. Formerly the central first floor window had a similar surround. Comtemporary stair and other interior fittings including some panelling and fireplaces. Lower red brick south wing. For some time home of John Wilkes, whose wife was of local family. Staircase with carved spandrels and spiral turned balusters rises full height of house. Hall has segmental arch with archivolt on fluted Doric columns. West garden front has 2 storey semi-octagonal bays. Central staircase sash window in eared architrave surround, fluted Roman Ionic pilasters, entablature with pulvinated frieze, modillion pediment.

Listing NGR: SP8165913882

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Legacy System number:: 41892
Legacy System:: LBS

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