Lilies
LILIES, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159749
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lilies
- Statutory Address:
- LILIES, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2005-06-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/14137/16
- Rights:
- © Mr George Harper. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159749
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lilies
- Statutory Address 1:
- LILIES, HIGH STREET
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:
- LILIES, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weedon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 81126 18392
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 January 2021 to correct text in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SP 81 NW
6/182
WEEDON HIGH STREET
Lilies
II
Country house with attached service wing and stables. 1870,
by George Devey, for Henry Cazenove. Red brick with dark
pointing, the side walls with blue diapers. Rusticated brick
quoins, other dressings of stone. Slate roof with stone copings
to gables, and brick chimneys, one with a moulded stone string.
In a classical style with first and second floor string courses,
moulded modillion cornice carried round central gable and stone
window surrounds. 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Outer bays have
canted projections with balustraded stone parapets and cross
casements, those to first floor in architrave arches with moulded
keyblocks. Centre bay has gable with lunette window in architrave
surround resting on cornice, and 3 raised brick panels to attic. First
floor has Venetian window, the central light with architrave arch
and scrolled keyblock, the outer lights with flat stone hoods
on scroll brackets. Flanking blind brick roundels. Ground floor
of centre bay has double half-glazed doors and flanking windows,
all with arched heads in painted stone architraves on similar piers.
Similar openings to single storey porch articulated with Ionic
pilasters, entablature and balustraded parapet, the central arch
with fleur-de-lys on keyblock. Other fronts of house also have
canted projections in outer bays, those to S. flanking site of
conservatory. Lower service block to N. is similar but is
irregularly gabled and has windows with segmental heads and keyblocks.
Stables attached to N. end surround small court with water tower
and carriage house to left of entrance and oval window in gable to right.
Other openings are mostly altered. Interior of house has carved
marble fireplaces, elaborate embossed paper or delicate plaster
ceilings, and panelled doors. Fine staircase with turned balusters,
arcaded landing and stained glass window. Dining room has oak chimney-
piece in Jacobethan style and large mirror in segmental arch.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42330
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Allibone, J, George Devey Architect 1820-1886, (1991), 160
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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