Taplow Court (Plessey Telecommunications Research)

TAPLOW COURT (PLESSEY TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH), CLIVEDEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165286
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:
Taplow Court (Plessey Telecommunications Research)
Statutory Address:
TAPLOW COURT (PLESSEY TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH), CLIVEDEN ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165286
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:
Taplow Court (Plessey Telecommunications Research)
Statutory Address 1:
TAPLOW COURT (PLESSEY TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH), CLIVEDEN ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TAPLOW COURT (PLESSEY TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH), CLIVEDEN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Taplow
National Grid Reference:
SU 90635 82216

Details

SU 9082 TAPLOW CLIVEDEN ROAD

16/649 Taplow Court (Plessey Telecommunications - Research)

- II

Dated 1855. The exterior in an early Tudor style, but the interior (with its central glazed hall rising the full height of the house) in a Romanesque style. Red brick; stone dressings; slate roof. Four storeys with 2 stone stringcourses carried round the building as drip moulds over the windows. Central projection with porch. Heavy oak door set in recess with Norman arch. Four windows one above the other. Corner chimneys corbelled out from the 2nd floor. On left, a bay window through 3 storeys; on right, windows with mullions and, on ground and 1st floors, transoms too. To the left and at right angles to the house, the stable court and offices. The back wing extends along the side of the churchyard of the old parish church of St Nicholas and is joined to the house by an octagonal tower. Most of the buildings red brick with slate roofs and 2 storeys high. The range facing the courtyard of the house with 4 gables reach- ing above eaves level and a clock turret over the archway.

Listing NGR: SU9063582216

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Legacy System number:
44243
Legacy System:
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Sources

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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.

Ordnance survey map of Taplow Court (Plessey Telecommunications Research)

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