The Bee House
THE BEE HOUSE, HURSTBOURNE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175623
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Bee House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BEE HOUSE, HURSTBOURNE PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175623
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Bee House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BEE HOUSE, HURSTBOURNE PARK
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 BEE HOUSE, HURSTBOURNE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hurstbourne Priors
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 44198 46379
Details
SU 44 NW
6/15
HURSTBOURNE PRIORS
HURSTBOURNE PARK
The Bee House
II*
Early C18, late C19. Probably built as a gazebo or garden pavilion, and could be the
design of Archer, who prepared a house design for the landowner in 1712; now a
dwelling of 3 storeys, following mainly internal alterations. The structure is a
rectangular block with a symmetrical facade on 3 sides; a tall main storey above a
basement and below a deep parapet. The narrow west elevation has a circular panel in
the parapet (with the coping curving above the upper part), a moulded cornice, a tall
central opening with a rubbed round arch, an impost band, a band at ground floor
level, and a later entrance in the basement. Walling is in red brickwork in Flemish
bond with blue headers, with flush panels of blue headers on each side of the main
floor. Two casements within the single opening are separated by a later brick panel
(masking the inserted floor); there is a 6-panelled door with a large canopy on
brackets. The east elevation has 2 recessed panels on either side of the central
wider opening (also with 2 windows), the parapet having 3 recessed panels and the
basement 2 windows; the features are the same but the walling is in blue headers above
cill level, with red brick quoins passing through as vertical lines, red brickwork in
Flemish bond below cill level. On the north elevation the basement is hidden by the
higher ground level; above the recessed arched side panels are circular panels in the
parapet, and the cornice divides in the centre as a segmental pediment with a
rectangular panel above; modern extensions and a doorway fill the east side. The east
elevation has later outshots and reveals the slate roofing. The building appears to
be one of 2 survivors in a once notable landscaped park, of the Earls of Portsmouth.
Listing NGR: SU4419846379
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 138366
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 19 Hampshire,
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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