Latimer House (National Defence College)
LATIMER HOUSE (NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124771
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Latimer House (National Defence College)
- Statutory Address:
- LATIMER HOUSE (NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124771
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Latimer House (National Defence College)
- Statutory Address 1:
- LATIMER HOUSE (NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE)
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:
- LATIMER HOUSE (NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Latimer and Ley Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 99964 98836
Details
SU 99 NE LATIMER LATIMER VILLAGE 3/95 Latimer House (National Defence College)
II
1834-38 by E Blore. Symmetrical red brick mansion of 2 storeys with attics in Tudor style. Ashlar dressings, slate roofs. Moulded octagonal shafts to stacks, crenellated parapets and mullioned and transomed casements. South front with 3 shallow projecting gabled bays in a front of 9 bays. East or entrance front of 5 bays, outer bays gabled and projecting. Central porch with oriel over and 1863 date plaque. Interior with entrance hall and staircase behind, surrounded by a rib-vaulted passage. Other rib-vaulted ceilings. Link range to north courtyard with north and west ranges of 2 storeys and east screen wall, battlemented with at south-east angle of north range clock tower with cupola.
Listing NGR: SU9996498836
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44951
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,
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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