Upper Terrace

UPPER TERRACE, 2-6, BEARWOOD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1118100
Date first listed:
29-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Upper Terrace
Statutory Address:
UPPER TERRACE, 2-6, BEARWOOD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1118100
Date first listed:
29-Apr-1987
Date of most recent amendment:
04-Aug-1989
List Entry Name:
Upper Terrace
Statutory Address 1:
UPPER TERRACE, 2-6, BEARWOOD 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:
UPPER TERRACE, 2-6, BEARWOOD ROAD

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

District:
Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Winnersh
National Grid Reference:
SU 77769 69553

Details

In the entry for

WINNERSH BEARWOOD ROAD SU 76 NE (East side)

9/5 Nos 3 to 6 (consecutive Upper Terrace

GV II

The entry shall be amended to read:

SU 76 NE WINNERSH BEARWOOD ROAD (east side)

9/3 Nos 2 to 6 (consecutive) Upper Terrace

GV II

Row of 5 estate cottages. Late C19. Brick with diaper patterning in dark headers, fish scale slate gabled roof. Rectangular plan with 3 large and 2 small gables facing west in a symmetrical facade. The large gables alternate with the smaller which break the eaves; all with decorative carved bargeboards. One and a half storeys, 7 large tall chimneys with clustered and fluted shafts, toothed bases and elaborate offset heads, some pots original. 2-light casement windows on first floor, 3-light on ground floor, all with decorative glazing bars. Entrance porches on west front on internal angles of projecting gables, with brick columns on stone bases, and tumbled brick and stone parapets with flat roofs behind. These cottages were built as part of the Walter model estate village of which Bear Wood (listed in the Parish of Arborfield and Newland) was the large house built for John Walter.

------------------------------------ WINNERSH BEARWOOD ROAD (east side) SU 76 NE 9/5 Nos. 3 to 6 (consecutive) Upper Terrace

G.V. II

Row of 4 estate cottages. Late C19. Brick with diaper patterning in dark headers, fish scale slate gabled roof. Rectangular plan with 3 large and 2 small gables facing west in a symmetrical facade. The large gables alternate with the smaller which break the eaves; all with decorative carved bargeboards. One and a half storeys, 7 large tall chimneys with clustered and fluted shafts, toothed bases and elaborate offset heads, some pots original. 2-light casement windows on first floor, 3-light on ground floor, all with decorative glazing bars. Entrance porches on west front on internal angles of projecting gables, with brick columns on stone bases, and tumbled brick and stone parapets with flat roofs behind. These cottages were built as part of the Walter model estate village of which Bear Wood (listed in the Parish of Arborfield and Newland) was the large house built for John Walter.

Listing NGR: SU7776969553

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
41481
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.

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