Old Alresford House

Old Alresford House, Old Alresford

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1157173
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:: Old Alresford House
Statutory Address:: Old Alresford House, Old Alresford

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1157173
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:: Old Alresford House
Statutory Address 1:: Old Alresford House, Old Alresford

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:: Old Alresford House, Old Alresford

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Winchester (District Authority)
Parish:: Old Alresford
National Grid Reference:: SU 58885 33674

Details

SU 53 SE 8/44

OLD ALRESFORD Old Alresford House

II* Middle sized country house. 1749-51 by William Jones for Admiral Lord Rodney. Brick with Bath stone dressings and slated roofs. Three storeys and basement, seven bays with slightly projecting centre three bays and single bay flanking wings at either end with single storey on basement service wings either side in front forming courtyard. Stone string courses at ground floor, ground floor cill level and second floor level, to centre five bays, and second floor cornice to flanking bays, tall parapet with coping and bracketed pediment to centre three bays. Flight of nine stone steps to central six- panel door in doorcase with arched radiating fanlight, in 1760s framed with porch of two fluted Tower of the Winds columns and pilasters supporting entablature with bucrania frieze. Either side a closely spaced sash then a widely spaced sash in the outer two bays, and the same arrange holds on the other floors. Ground and first floor have twelve-pane sashes, second floor six-paned, all with rubbed brick arches.

Inside plan form of central saloon, now morning room, flanked by dining and drawing rooms and entrance hall flanked by main and service stairs. In morning room original rococo plaster ceiling, with central panel of eagle discharging thunderbolts and corner medallions of the seasons. Some C18 fireplaces and Regency ceilings. In east service wing Chapel and sitting room decorated in neo-classical trompe l'oeil by Robert Jackson after designs by Annigoni.

House stands at top of park laid out by Richard Woods in 1764 with lawn and ha-ha in front of house and flanking walls of beech and yew framing view down to Alresford Pond.

Listing NGR: SU5876034222

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Legacy System number:: 145203
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 19 Hampshire,

Legal

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