Bighton House
BIGHTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155346
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bighton House
- Statutory Address:
- BIGHTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155346
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bighton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIGHTON HOUSE
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:
- BIGHTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Winchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bighton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 62277 35524
Details
SU 63 NW; 1/2
BIGHTON,
BIGHTON,
Bighton House
GV
II
Small country house. Early C19 and c1844. Yellow brick and flint with brick
dressing addition, roof slate. Two storeys and attic five-bay by five-bay block of
1844, attached to side of three bays by three bays. Two-storey block, c1820, and added to this
a late C19 service block, two storeys, three bays by three bays. Garden front: five-bay main block
has large low silled 15-pane sashes with brackets, pediments of 1.2.3.2.1. styles
segmental: none: triangular. Above, 12-pane sashes in architraves with every other
one lugged. On second floor, blank attic panels and large rendered cornice, with
parapet punctuated by two lengths of balustrades. Centre block has three 12-pane sashes
with gauged-brick arches, and carriageway, now French window with wide cambered gauged-brick arch.
Raised brick architrave round whole facade with raised first-floor band.
On first floor, two 12-pane and one thin 8-pane sash, with above the architrave, stone
cornice and short parapet with stone coping. Late C19 block has three 20-pane sashes
with above, a 12-pane sash and a tripartite sash. Inside small entrance vestibule
leading to full height oval staircase hall with coved ends and curved doors to other
wing and screen with arched niches on first-floor level, and glass cupola.
VCH (1908) Vol. 3; p 38.
Listing NGR: SP5687230260
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 145300
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1908)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 102
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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