The Chalet
THE CHALET, ASTON HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124227
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Chalet
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHALET, ASTON HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124227
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Chalet
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHALET, ASTON HILL
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:
- THE CHALET, ASTON HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aston Clinton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 88853 10109
Details
SP 81 SE ASTON CLINTON ASTON HILL
5/1 The Chalet (formerly listed as "The Chalet", Halton) 21.7.72
- II
Summer house or Pavilion now a house, built 1887-8 for Alfred de Rothschild of Halton House for entertaining guests, reputedly by an Austrian architect, Modelled on an Alpine chalet with timber ground floor and loft on a brick basement. Large shallow pitched tiled roof sweeping down over side verandahs, 1 chimney, South gable front verandah with 4 large posts on red brick bases, braced to tiebeams, rustic balustrades to verandah and balcony, the latter with a band of rustic palissading below. Walls finished with panels of logs set in patterns . Heavy plate glass mullioned and transomed windows. Interior: 3 rooms retain painted and gilded panelling, decorative leather lining and silk tapestry hangings. History. Visited by Edward VIII who was a friend of Alfred de Rothschild. (see 'Beechwoods and Bayonets - the Book of Halton, by A.E. Adam, Buckingham 1983).
Listing NGR: SP8885310109
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42569
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Adam, A E, Beechwoods and Bayonets The Book of Halton, (1983)
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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