Africa House Burke Lodge
AFRICA HOUSE, 20, LONDON END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1124572
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Africa House Burke Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- AFRICA HOUSE, 20, LONDON END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1124572
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Africa House Burke Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- AFRICA HOUSE, 20, LONDON END
- Statutory Address 2:
- BURKE LODGE, 20, LONDON END
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:
- AFRICA HOUSE, 20, LONDON END
- Statutory Address:
- BURKE LODGE, 20, LONDON END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaconsfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 94602 90085
Details
SU 9490 SE BEACONSFIELD LONDON END (south side) 13/80 No 20 (Burke Lodge and 19.5.50 Africa House)
GV II*
Now 2 dwellings, but formerly one, previously the Crown Inn. U-shaped in plan. C16/17 origin, refronted C18. Timber-framed; colourwashed cement rendered; old tile roof behind parapet. Quoins at both ends of elevation. Five canted bay windows through 2 storeys 2 of them with the porches to the houses set in their lower part. First floor with five 1:3:1 windows with C18 glazing bars in form of octagons and a similarly glazed semicircular window over the carriage entrance. Ground floor with three 1:3:1 windows, 2 Tuscan pedimented porches, that to Africa House with metopes and triglyphs, that to Burke Lodge, smaller. Between the houses, a carriage entrance with panelled door and pointed arches opening with decorated spandrels. Stable wing at rear of Burke Lodge. Two storeys; colourwashed brick; much restored. RCHM I, p 43 item (8). Africa House formerly known as Burke House.
Listing NGR: SU9460290085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 43720
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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