KIT'S CLOSE

KIT'S CLOSE, BENHAM'S LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125737
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: KIT'S CLOSE
Statutory Address:: KIT'S CLOSE, BENHAM'S LANE

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Date:: 2003-11-29
Reference:: IOE01/11613/08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1125737
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: KIT'S CLOSE
Statutory Address 1:: KIT'S CLOSE, BENHAM'S LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: KIT'S CLOSE, BENHAM'S LANE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Fawley
National Grid Reference:: SU7568286629

Details

SU 78 NE 6/7

FAWLEY BENHAM'S LANE Kit's Close

II

House. 1936-1937, by Christopher Nicholson, for Dr. Warren Crowe. Later slight alterations and swimming pool extension at S.W. end. Brick, laid in header bond with the headers set vertically, mostly rendered. Render on N.W. front whitewashed, render to S.E. now painted pink. Flat roofs. Whitewashed chimneys with revolving funnels. L-plan. Built in International Modern style. 2 storeys, with single storey service wing. Entrance front to N.W. has 4 bays of 2 and 3-light metal casements, one louvred, to left, and central staircase projection with glazed left side, blind wall curving back to right, and entrance in right side. Remainder of entrance front to right has curved ground floor wall behind flat porch canopy, barred wooden bay window with square panes, and 8-light metal casement to first floor. To far right is blind rendered wall and brick garden wall incorporating small glass-house. Glazing bars of glass- house have been removed. To left of entrance front is projecting service wing with 6 port-hole windows and garage. S.W. end has first floor projection on steel poles, one replaced by rendered pier, and later C20 verandah and swimming pool extension. Garden front has blank brick projection to left, and continuous casements to main centre block. Ground floor originally had large sliding wooden casements but now has fixed glazing in wooden frames of original size. Central French doors, later C20 opening plastic casement in right side. First floor has balcony with later C20 iron railings, metal casements and French doors, and right bay slightly recessed with flat projecting canopy over sleeping balcony. Set back to right is brick block with 10 small port-holes lighting servants' passage on first floor, and later C20 metal casements to right. Terrace, part with altered paving. Curved garden wall to far right. Exterior originally completely rendered and whitewashed. Interior: large ground floor room with central folding partition, plan inspired by shape of grand piano, and altered fireplace; cork-tiled winder staircase; fitted wooden shelves and cupboards with aluminium handles throughout. (Architectural Review Vol. LXXXIII, 1938 p. 305-309).

Listing NGR: SU7568286629

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Legacy System number:: 46657
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Architectural Review' in Architectural Review, , Vol. 83, (1938), 305-309

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.