Folly Farmhouse and Entrance Court to East
FOLLY FARMHOUSE AND ENTRANCE COURT TO EAST, SULHAMSTEAD HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1135848
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Folly Farmhouse and Entrance Court to East
- Statutory Address:
- FOLLY FARMHOUSE AND ENTRANCE COURT TO EAST, SULHAMSTEAD HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1135848
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Folly Farmhouse and Entrance Court to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOLLY FARMHOUSE AND ENTRANCE COURT TO EAST, SULHAMSTEAD 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:
- FOLLY FARMHOUSE AND ENTRANCE COURT TO EAST, SULHAMSTEAD HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sulhamstead
- National Grid Reference:
- SU6308368919
Details
SU 66 NW
3/43
25.10.51
SULHAMSTEAD
SULHAMSTEAD HILL (West Side)
Folly Farmhouse And Entrance Court To East
G.V.
I
Farmhouse now house. Circa 1650, enlarged by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1906 in a
free William and Mary style and again in 1911 in a Neo Venacular style. North
wing: C17 and 1914. Red brick, timber framed with red brick nogging and plaster
panels, and old tile roof. 3 framed bays, that to right of 1914. East front:
1 storey to right and 2 storeys to left. Hipped eaves dormer to rear with 2-
light casement. Large mullioned and transomed window to right, 2 first floor
2-light casements to left, and 2 ground floor 3-light casements flanked by 2-light casements; panelled door between first and second windows from left with C18 carved architrave and Console brackets supporting cornice. East block: grey brick with red brick and ashlar dressings, and hipped old tile roof. H-plan. South front: one storey centre with 2 storey wings. Gauged window heads, ground floor window aprons, chainage, chamfered quoins, plat band, 2 central ridge stacks on wings with arched panels, and stack and 2 hipped semi dormers to rear. 3 bay centre with 2 bay wings. 3 tall central segmental headed 6-light mullioned and transomed leaded windows, and 2-light leaded casements in wings. 2 bay return fronts with 2-light leaded casement to north, first floor blind circular windows to south, and glazed doors beneath with moulded architraves, central uncarved blocks above, pulvinated frieze, and cornice. East front: central first floor 2-light leaded casement with louvred shutters, ground floor 2-light leaded casement to left, and central doorway with moulded architrave, blank panel above, and off-set door behind. West block: red brick, some first floor tile hanging to
left, weatherboarded gable end to south, and old tile roof with catslide over
loggia to south-east. Irregular T-plan with circular dairy to north. 1½ and
2 storeys. 2 hipped dormers with 2-light leaded casements to south and one
to east; large 2 storey hipped canted bay to west consisting of battered ground
floor with arches to north and south, and open first floor with balustraded
sleeping balcony; large stack adjoining sleeping balcony to north with central
rectangular dummy shaft flanked by 2 diamond shafts. South front: square pool
courtyard to right consisting of L-shaped loggia with battered piers, 4 bays to
right with glazed doors behind, and 3 bays in left-hand return front with 2-
light casements behind and round arch at south-end; projecting square porch in
angle, and steps into pool at north-west and south-east corners; 2 storey canted
bay in left-hand gable end with leaded mullioned and transomed windows. Entrance
Court: approximately 10 metres square. Red brick panelled walls with tiled coping, approximately 3 metres high. Central semi-circular arches to north, south and west with segmental relieving arches, and tiled spandrels; arch to west has gate with radial fanlight. Wall extended to north-east to connect with barn (q.v.) Interior:1906 block: central double-height hall with coved ceiling and first floor balcony at each end and fireplace to north; drawing room with arched glazed cupboards flanking fireplace; 1912 block: dining room with frescoes by Sir
William Nicholson, and very large chimneypiece; panelled library. Free Arts &
Crafts fittings throughout. Gardens designed by Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.
R. Gradidge, Edwin Lutyens Architect Laureate London, 1981. See also Edwin
Lutyens, exhibition catalogue Hayward Gallery, London, 1981. B.0.E. (Berks),
pp. 231-2; County Life Vol.Ll,Jan. 28, 1922, pp. 112-119, and Feb 4, 1922,
pp.146-153.
Listing NGR: SU6308368919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 40025
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 231-2
Gradidge, R, Edwin Lutyens Architect Laureate, (1981)
Country Life in 28 January, Vol. 51, (1922), 112-119
Country Life in 4 February, Vol. 51, (1922), 146-153
Arts Council of Great Britain Catalogue in The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens 1889-1944, (1981)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 3 Berkshire,
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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