Kingscourt School
Kingscourt School, 182 Five Heads Road, Horndean, PO8 9NJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179074
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Kingscourt School
- Statutory Address:
- Kingscourt School, 182 Five Heads Road, Horndean, PO8 9NJ
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179074
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kingscourt School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Kingscourt School, 182 Five Heads Road, Horndean, PO8 9NJ
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:
- Kingscourt School, 182 Five Heads Road, Horndean, PO8 9NJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horndean
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 69397 14002
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 July 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SU 61 SE
8/5
HORNDEAN
FIVE HEADS ROAD
No 182
Kingscourt School
(Formerly listed as CATHERINGTON LANE Catherington House, previously listed as Catherington Retreat House)
16.3.54
II
Large house. Mid C18 and early C19. Brick walls of blue headers with flush red dressings; plinth, quoins, rubbed flat arches, thin 1st floor band: parapet with stone coping, and cornice having a stone moulding above a stepped brick fascia, stone cills; the later part has a similar parapet and a brick dentilled cornice. Hipped tile roof. South front elevation of two phases, one a regular facade of three storeys four windows, with a lower east extension of two storeys three windows, then a single-storeyed service wing with a gable (or steep pediment) and a Venetian window set within a cambered-arched recess. Sashes. Doric wood porch of two plain columns two pilasters, and complete Roman Order with triglyphs, set on a stone-flagged podium, with a central flight of steps, now with C20 glazing; this porch is of the second phase, and within it there is a complete (original) doorcase, comprising an open pediment on console brackets, above thin panelled pilasters, with an arched opening containing a radiating fanlight, and a late C19 half-glazed door.
The rear (north) elevation is similar, with a deep arched staircase window, and a projecting C20 single-storeyed wing.
A mid C19 single-storeyed service wing is set back and extends at the east side.
Inside, the main feature is the original staircase. The house is associated with Admiral Hood.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 142915
- 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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