West Wycombe Park House
WEST WYCOMBE PARK HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160521
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- West Wycombe Park House
- Statutory Address:
- WEST WYCOMBE PARK HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160521
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- West Wycombe Park House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST WYCOMBE PARK 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:
- WEST WYCOMBE PARK HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Wycombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 82882 94290
Details
WEST WYCOMBE 1. 963 West Wycombe Park House SU 8294 10/6 9.1.54. I
2. Later C17 or early C18 structure remodelled circa 1735-65 for Sir Francis Dashwood Bart, Lord Le Despencer (1708-81). Stone and stucco house of rectangular plan with long sides facing north and south. North front in Palladian manner with projecting central pediment on 4 engaged Roman Ionic columns. East elevation tetrastyle Doric portico with frescoes (in course of restoration), to tympanum and to external wall of house, shown in engraving of 1757. South front by John Donovell circa 1760 (perhaps based on Palladio's Palazzo Chiericati at Vicenza) has double, superimposed colonnade, Tuscan on ground floor, Corinthian to 1st floor, with central projecting pediment; frescoes on ground floor ceiling and east end wall. West front has Greek Ionic hexastyle portico (based on the Temple of Teosiin Greece) with coffered and frescoed soffit. Designed circa 1765 by Robert Adam and carried out with modifications by Nicholas Revett. Interior has ground floor ceilings printed by Borgnis, either Giuseppe or his son Giovanni. Carved marble chimneypieces, - in State Drawing Room by Henry Cheere, in Dining Room by Thomas Carter. Staircase wall paintings after Raphael's Vatican Loggie. See Country Life, 1 and 8.1.1916 alma 6 and 13.5.1933.
Listing NGR: SU8288294290
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46157
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1916)
Country Life in Country Life, (1933)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,
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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