Arborfield Court
ARBORFIELD COURT, SWALLOWFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118123
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Arborfield Court
- Statutory Address:
- ARBORFIELD COURT, SWALLOWFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118123
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Arborfield Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARBORFIELD COURT, SWALLOWFIELD 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.
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:
- ARBORFIELD COURT, SWALLOWFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Arborfield and Newland
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 75841 66472
Details
ARBORFIELD AND NEWLAND SWALLOWFIELD ROAD SU 76 NE (south-east side)
9/25 Arborfield Court
II
Large country house, now divided in 2 units. 1904 by Fairfax B. Wade, in a free William and Mary style. Red brick with orange dressings; rendered panels between head and cills of windows; tile hipped roof with extended brick end stacks. 2 storeys and attics. Plinth, giant pilaster panels, wood modillion eaves cornice and 6 dormers the outer pairs hipped, central pair flat headed. Entrance front: 3 central bays project with further projection in central bay which includes pediment gabled stair tower; central bay panelled through 3 storeys with recessed dressed arch above triple keystone. 2 storey octagonal wood oriel with rendered panels between first and attic floors. 9 bays, cross casements in outer 3 bays on each side six light casements flanking central bays. All leaded. Recessed arched entrance with large recessed open segmental pediment, infilled at sides and panelled. Panelled double doors, latticed over light and sidelights; brick centre supporting pediment. The whole flanked on either side by small one storey projecting pavillions. Garden front in similar style with projecting wings. Interior:- return staircase in panelled well with barley sugar balusters. B.O.E. (Berks) p.66. V.C.H. Vol.III p.202.
Listing NGR: SU7584166472
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41429
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 66
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 202
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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