The Clock House
THE CLOCK HOUSE, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165060
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Clock House
- Statutory Address:
- THE CLOCK HOUSE, PARK ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-10-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/08828/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165060
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Clock House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CLOCK HOUSE, PARK 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:
- THE CLOCK HOUSE, PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Poges
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 97801 83135
Details
SU 98 SE STOKE POGES PARK ROAD
8/615 The Clock House -
- II
Built 1765 for Thomas Penn of Stoke Park with a chapel on the left and an adjoining L-shaped building on the right an almshouse for 3 men and 3 women. Red brick; old tile roof. From left to right. First, the single-storeyed and gabled former chapel. Pointed Gothick window with Y-tracery and leaded lights. Then, the Master's House, that is, the vicarage that was replaced in 1802 by James Wyatt's (see item 13/613), since the vicar of Stoke Poges was also master of the almshouses. Two storeys; 5 bays. Ground floor with central arched entrance. All windows segment-headed sashes with glazing bars, those of the 1st floor smaller than those of the ground floor. Then the former almshouses proper, a 5-bay block with French window on the left and segment-headed casement windows, a 2-storeyed clock-tower with wooden cupola astride the gable and another 2-storeyed single bay with segment-headed casement windows. Walled gardens back and front. Square brick piers surmounted by balls and wrought iron gates.
Listing NGR: SU9780183135
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44214
- 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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