Holly Mount
HOLLY MOUNT, PENN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162506
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Mount
- Statutory Address:
- HOLLY MOUNT, PENN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162506
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Mount
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLLY MOUNT, PENN 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:
- HOLLY MOUNT, PENN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Penn
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 93179 92919
Details
SU 99 SW PENN PENN ROAD
3/55 Holly Mount
8.10.73 II*
Detached house. Designed in 1905 by C F A Voysey for C T Burke and completed in 1907. Vernacular Revival style. Built of roughcast with stone dressings, tarred plinths and green slate roof with 2 roughcast chimneystacks. Two storeys; 3 windows. Rectangular plan with gable at either end and further projecting gable to front left. One storey service wing to left. Irregularly spaced mullioned leaded casement windows retaining original catches and green tiled ci1ls internally. Doorcase under gable has round-headed tiled hood mould and arched door with circular glazed opening. Plaque above with lettering 'HOLLYMOUNT 1907' flanked by holly decoration. Rear elevation has 2 dormers. Three-light windows to dormers and 4-light to ground floor. Left side late C20 French window replacing porthole window. INTERIOR: Hall has polished green slate floors, original slate fireplace with round-headed arch and a series of plank doors with original rustic hinges, round-headed to Drawing Room. Well staircase with elongated stick balusters. Drawing Room has original fireplace having shelf with 3 brackets, large cambered brick arch and curved copper fender. Dining Room has round-headed tiled arched fireplace with shelf with 2 brackets above and 2 original cupboards with heart-shaped locks. Breakfast Room has original built-in dresser, cupboards and row of8 servants' bells. First floor has 4 cast iron fireplaces with marble surrounds and robin relief and built-in cupboards.
[See Pevsner BOE Buckinghamshire Revised 1994 p177. Stuart Durant 'CFA Voysey' 1991].
Listing NGR: SU9317992919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44551
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Durant, S, CFA Voysey, (1991)
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, (1994), 177
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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