The Wakes (including Museum Flat and the Flat)

The Wakes (including Museum Flat and the Flat), High Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1174798
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:: The Wakes (including Museum Flat and the Flat)
Statutory Address:: The Wakes (including Museum Flat and the Flat), High Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1174798
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1963
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-May-1987
List Entry Name:: The Wakes (including Museum Flat and the Flat)
Statutory Address 1:: The Wakes (including Museum Flat and the Flat), High Street

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: The Wakes (including Museum Flat and the Flat), High Street

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: East Hampshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Selborne
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: SU 74083 33677

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

SU 7433 11/21

SELBORNE HIGH STREET (WEST SIDE) The Wakes (including Museum Flat and the Flat)

(Formerly listed as The Wakes, previously listed as The Wakes, with garden wall, brick path and sundial, and 2 cottages which terminate the main range at either end)

31/7/63

GV I

Famous as the home of Gilbert White (1720-1793) the naturalist, and now a museum. The front wall is mainly brickwork of the C19, with C18 Flemish bond to the dining room, while the service wing uses the local style of malmstone ashlar with brick dressings. Complex tiled roof arrangement, with mainly hips to the front (east) and gables to the rear, and an assortment of Tudor chimneys. Of C16 origin as a timber-framed hall (of local type), the building has been extended, to become an irregular group close to the High Street, the various stages of growth and change from the Vernacular house of the early C18 being traceable from the illustrations published in the several editions of 'The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.

To the south end is a service range, altered from smaller buildings, of 1910. Two storeys, irregular fenestration. Sashes to the central part (the C18 house) and casements else-where. The entrance is a gabled porch, with an open decorative timber-frame on a base wall. At the rear the C18 house and the service wing have malmstone walls with brick quoins, first floor band, some cambered arches, and plinth: casements and traditional doors; the north side is brickwork with tile-hung upper floors, casements (including two large two storeyed bays).

Interior: the central hall has a low ceiling with C17 beams and a fireplace (insertions into the open structure) and there is a C17 room (study) associated with a staircase tower (altered) at the south west side, the south east side having a room (dining room) of 1794. North of the hall is the Great Parlour built by White in 1777 as a single storeyed large room, and beyond it is the library of c 1850. Parlour and library were given an upper floor c 1880, and a billiard room (also two storeyed) was added to the north end in the early C20, with a passageway connection to the hall along the front of the house, which was then given a porch.

Listing NGR: SU7408333677

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Legacy System number:: 143004
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
White, G, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, (1875)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.