Calleva House
CALLEVA HOUSE, 6, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182080
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Calleva House
- Statutory Address:
- CALLEVA HOUSE, 6, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182080
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Calleva House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CALLEVA HOUSE, 6, HIGH STREET
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:
- CALLEVA HOUSE, 6, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wallingford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60893 89483
Details
WALLINGFORD HIGH STREET SU6089SE (South side) 11/94 No.6 (Calleva House) 09/12/49
GV II*
House, now shop. Early C18. Red brick plinth; grey brick with red brick dressings; old plain-tile roof; brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Baroque style. 3-storey, 5-window range. Steps to central 8-panel part-glazed door with painted fluted Doric pilasters supporting frieze with triglyphs and floral metopes and segmental pediment with recessed centre. Rubbed brick piers to left and right of centre, and to left and right end. Segmental-topped windows to left and right with segmental brick heads; originally 24-pane sashes with bottom sash opening dropped into plinth. Painted moulded brick band between ground and first floor. Rubbed brick Doric giant order pilasters to first and second floor left and right of centre, and left and right ends. 24-pane segmental-topped unhorned sashes with thick glazing bars, half-H aprons with guttae, and segmental brick heads with projecting brick voussoirs to first floor. Shaped brick band between first and second floors. 16-pane segmental-topped unhorned sashes with thick glazing bars, half-H aprons with guttae, and segmental brick heads with shaped brick keystones to second floor. Dentilled brick cornice and C20 brick parapet to eaves. Rear: sashes to most openings with 24-pane round-topped unhorned sash to staircase window. Interior: open-well staircase with landings to rear centre. Balustrade of fluted and barley-sugar balusters with Corinthian fluted columns to corners, and shaped hand rail. Fielded panelling with Corinthian pilasters to dado with shaped top. Panelled reveal to staircase window with arched and pilastered surround. Fielded panelling to ground floor left and right front and to first floor left and right front. Early C18 plain stone fireplace surrounds to ground and first floor front rooms. Panelling to first floor rear right. One wall of panelling to first floor rear left. Early C18 plain wood fireplace surrounds to first floor rear rooms. Decorative plaster ceiling to ground floor right with oval-decorated band and central rose. History: said to have been built for William Hucks M.P. (d.1734). (Historic Wallingford, a walk-round Guide; J. and S. Dewey, 1982; V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.S, 1923, p.520).
Listing NGR: SU6089389483
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249240
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 520
Dewey, J, S, , Historic Wallingford A Walk Round Guide, (1982)
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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