Sue Ryder Home
SUE RYDER HOME
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181065
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sue Ryder Home
- Statutory Address:
- SUE RYDER HOME
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181065
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sue Ryder Home
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUE RYDER HOME
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:
- SUE RYDER HOME
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nettlebed
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 70166 86585
Details
NETTLEBED 5U7086 13/86 Sue Ryder Home - II Country House, now nursing home, formerly known as Joyce Grove. 1908 by C.E. Mallows for Robert Fleming. Red brick; bath stone dressings; slate roof; brick and stone stacks. Complex plan. Jacobean style. 2 storeys and attic; 13- window range. Studded and ribbed double door to left of centre, wooden hood suspended from wrought iron brackets. Central blind porch with round-headed mullion and transom windows to 3 sides. Stone cross-windows to most openings. Stone straight-sided 2-storey bay windows with mullion and transom windows to cross wings. Balustraded parapet to roof with shaped cross-gables. Gabled dormers to attic. Brick stacks of several flues, mostly to ridge. Other elevations of same style and quality. Interior: Good quality Louis XV-style panelling to most ground floor rooms. Staircase hall has Jacobean-style panelling with wooden ribbed ceiling with painted panels. Staircase is straight flight with winder. Staircase hall fireplace has stone hood with niches, supported on columns. Fireplace to main bedroom, now the Flemming Room, stone, carved with putti holding garlands. Attached stables and garage block. History: House built for Robert Fleming, merchant banker. Passed to Peter Fleming, explorer and writer, husband of Celia Johnson, actress, and brother of Ian Fleming, writer of "James Bond" novels.
Listing NGR: SU7016686585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247107
- 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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