Whitchurch House
WHITCHURCH HOUSE, OVING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160084
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Whitchurch House
- Statutory Address:
- WHITCHURCH HOUSE, OVING ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160084
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Whitchurch House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITCHURCH HOUSE, OVING ROAD
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:
- WHITCHURCH HOUSE, OVING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 79935 21002
Details
SP 72 SE WHITCHURCH OVING ROAD
2/231 Whitchurch House
25.10.51 _ II
House. Early C17, altered and extended to rear early C18 and early C20. Coursed rubble stone to ground floor; moulded first floor string course; roughcast upper storey with moulded wooden modillion cornice and rendered parapet. Old tile roof, External chimney to left has stone stack with 2 square shafts of thin brick set diagonally, the shafts rebuilt. C17 central chimney has pilasters to 3 sides and later brick chimney to right. 2 storeys and cellar, 4 main bays. Ground floor left bays have early C20 3-light wooden casements with transoms. 5 similar windows to first floor. 2 bays to ground floor right each have 2 early C18 3-pane sashes in architrave frames. Cellar window in third bay, small rectangular inglenook window in stone surround, partly chamfered, to centre. Good wide central door is 6-panelled with architrave frame and rectangular fanlight. Flat wooden cornice hood above has panelled soffit and elaborately carved scroll brackets. Ornamental carved wooden panel with cherubs has been set above door, also a later sundial. Extensions parallel to rear are gabled and have irregular leaded cross windows, gabled porch with made-up wooden doorcase, and projecting side wings. Interior: Room to ground floor left has enrly C18 bolection panelling and 2-panelled doors. Room to left of centre has large fireplace with moulded stone jambs and moulded 4-centred wooden lintel. Inner side walls of fireplace have chamfered depressed arches of dressed stone, the left a niche, the right with window. Altered C18 staircase with fine turned balusters, moulded handrail and bulbous baluster newelposts. Chamfered and stop-chamfered spine beams. RCHM II p. 328 -9 Mon. 17.
Listing NGR: SP7993521002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42379
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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