Hyde House
HYDE HOUSE, CHESHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162808
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Hyde House
- Statutory Address:
- HYDE HOUSE, CHESHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162808
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Hyde House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HYDE HOUSE, CHESHAM 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:
- HYDE HOUSE, CHESHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chartridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 92570 01026
Details
SP 90 SW
5/37
CHARTRIDGE,
CHESHAM ROAD (south side),
Hyde Heath,
Hyde House
II
Small country house. Early C18 with early C19 alterations. Painted
stucco with ashlar lines. Slate roof behind parapet. 2-storeys.
6-bays with double hung sash windows in moulded architrave frames to
all but central two windows on each floor which are mullioned and
transomed 2-light casements, those on first floor with leaded glazing
and stained glass panels, those on ground floor with lattice glazing.
Central glazed door with late C17 carved surround with segmental
pediment and carved frieze with cherubs heads, curved brackets on
beasts. Fanlight with stained glass. Each side of door is an old stone
heraldic shield, with arms of Woburn Abbey and Russell. West elevation:
6 bays of sash windows. Garden (south) elevation: of 7 bays, with tall
triple sash windows to left on ground floor, central wooden door case
with pilaster surround and frieze. Service wing on left dated 1929,
roughcast and gabled, linked to C18 flint and brick cottage and stable
wing with old tile roof, C19 cast iron stalls and partitions internally.
INTERIOR of house: late C18 staircase with twisted balusters; Morning
Room has moulded plaster cornice and C18 carved oak chimney piece with
caryatid and royal arms to iron fireback. Dining Room has good plaster
cornice with urns, carved chimney piece with original iron fireback.
Drawing Room has ornamental frieze and plain cornice, bolection panelling
and white marble chimney piece with large scrolls and old iron fireback.
HISTORY: Formerly Chesham Woburn Manor, belonging to Woburn Abbey and after
the dissolution to the Russells. Home of Robert Plumer Ward, politician
and writer between 1804 and 1832, and of Isaac D'Israeli 1825-6 when
Benjamin Disraeli wrote his second novel "Contarini Fleming" in the house.
Listing NGR: SP9257001026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44639
- 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.
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