Lock's House

LOCK'S HOUSE, WATERLOO ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1118082
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1967
List Entry Name:
Lock's House
Statutory Address:
LOCK'S HOUSE, WATERLOO ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1118082
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1967
List Entry Name:
Lock's House
Statutory Address 1:
LOCK'S HOUSE, WATERLOO ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOCK'S HOUSE, WATERLOO ROAD

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

District:
Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wokingham Without
National Grid Reference:
SU 83359 67727

Details

WOKINGHAM WITHOUT WATERLOO ROAD SU 86 NW (south side) 10/4 Lock's House 26.8.67 G.V. II*

House. Early C18 with late C18 alterations on west, C19 and C20 extensions on south. Plum coloured brick with red quoins and vertical strips containing each bay. Steeply pitched hipped old tile roof. 2 storeys and attic with tall plinth, first floor string, moulded and bracketed painted wooden cornice. Chimneys with offset heads on rear roof slope. North front:- 3 pedimented dormers with sash windows and glazing bars, the centre with segmental pediment. All other windows segmental headed sashes with glazing bars. 5 bays, the centre bay slightly projecting with string and cornice broken round. 8-panelled central door, small 2-pane rectangular fanlight, in Doric doorcase of fluted plasters, entablature with triglyph frieze, and modillioned pediment, approached by a flight of 5 moulded stone steps with wrought iron handrail. West front:- large semi-circular 2 storey bay on left, with cornice carried round and hipped old tile roof. 3 sash windows on each floor with flat heads and glazing altered. To the right is one central upper sash and 2 on ground floor. Interior:- C18 and C19 panelling in hall and principal rooms. Late C18 fireplace with flanking semi- circular headed cupboards in room at rear. C18 staircase with turned balusters. B.O.E. (Berkshire) p.310.

Listing NGR: SU8335967727

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
41538
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 310

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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