MEDMENHAM GATES, WITH ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS

MEDMENHAM GATES, WITH ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, HENLEY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159807
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: MEDMENHAM GATES, WITH ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address:: MEDMENHAM GATES, WITH ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, HENLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159807
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: MEDMENHAM GATES, WITH ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: MEDMENHAM GATES, WITH ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, HENLEY ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MEDMENHAM GATES, WITH ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, HENLEY ROAD

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Medmenham
National Grid Reference:: SU 81307 84327

Details

MEDMENHAM HENLEY ROAD SU 88 SW (south side) Medmenham Gates, with 8/138 attached gates & gate-piers 16.8.83 - II House. C16, with N.W. end refronted and extended early-mid C18, and N.W. chimney rebuilt c.1900. C18 build is of knapped and coursed flint with brick quoins and bonded vertical strips flanking windows. Rear wing timber-framed with brick infill, part tile-hung. Old tile roof, hipped over front block. Brick chimneys, that to left with lower part of c.1900 knapped flint and stone chequers. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic. Front has 3-bay fenestration with leaded cross windows, part renewed 1985, those to ground floor with cambered heads. C19 matching window inserted to left. Original outer bays have doors, the left door 3-panelled with rectangular fanlight, the right door flush-panelled with C20 gabled wooden porch. 2 hipped dormers with paired leaded casements. Chimney to left has moulded stone string arched over plaque with initials HEK (Hudson Ewbanke Kearley of Wittington), and has stepped left side with stone scroll to gate piers at left end of house. Pair of cast iron gates with same initials and matching pier to left. Rear wing has leaded casements and substantial timbering with heavy wall-braces, arched wind-braces, and stop-chamfered joists.

Listing NGR: SU8130784327

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 47021
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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