Tottenham House
TOTTENHAM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1183809
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Tottenham House
- Statutory Address:
- TOTTENHAM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1183809
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tottenham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOTTENHAM HOUSE
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:
- TOTTENHAM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bedwyn
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 24985 63926
Details
SU 26 SW,
4/66
GREAT BEDWYN,
Tottenham House
(formerly listed as Tottenham House, Hawtreys School)
22.08.66
I
Great house, now boys preparatory school. 1825, by Thomas Cundy II
for Charles Brudenell Bruce, Marquess of Ailesbury. Ashlar
limestone. Slate roofs. Two-storey, semi-basement and attic
storey to centre block. Giant tetrastyle Ionic portico up 10
steps. Five-bay centre block and 3 window bay linking blocks to 3
x 3 bay wings with gable stacks. Attached half Tuscan column
quadrant arms to 1 x 5 bay terminal pavilions, all with roof
balustrade. Main block and linking blocks have 6-pane casement
windows, triangular pediments and apron balustrade. Cornice above
second storey. Quadrant arms altered 1870, niches between columns
and central arch with freestanding lion cresting. Rear elevation
of main block similar but portico with paired Ionic columns.
INTERIOR: Entrance hall with paired Ionic pilasters and dentil
cornice. End bracketed fireplaces and garlanded panel over with
marble figure and child. Ailesbury motto FULMUS. Doors to main
stair hall, 3 storeys high under roof light. Flying stair and
galleries with cast iron balustrade and mahogany wreathed and
carved rail. To right, the Grey Parlour, c1720-30 by Lord
Burlington. Chaste, with marble fireplace and wood overmantel.
Doors with pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. Two pairs oak
doors between rooms. Dining Hall of 4 bays. Marble chimneypiece.
Heavy moulded plaster ceiling with star centre. Billiard Room, now
library, with very rich ceiling, baroque chimneypiece and parquet
floor. Marble Room in right wing. Paired Corinthian pilasters in
mottled grey marble on background of yellow marble. Grisaille
trompe l'oeil panels. Marble fireplace and parquet floor. Rear of
right quadrant wing is former conservatory, cast iron columns and
barrel vaulted roof by Richard and Jones. Heating plant by Henry
Stothart. Tottenham House was built on the site of 2 earlier
houses, first, of 1573-5 probably erected with advice of Sir John
Thynne, and second a brick mansion by Richard Boyle, Lord
Burlington, for his brother in law, Charles Bruce, part of which
house is incorporated in the present building. Venetian windows
flanking the portico recall Burlington's scheme drawn by Flitcroft,
a direct reference to Jones's Wilton. Grounds landscaped by
Launcelot Brown, 1764 for Lord Bruce, some prospects surviving.
(References: Wittkower, R., Palladio and English Palladianism,1983
119f and plan and elevations 118 and 119. Landscape: Stroud, D.
Capability Brown; Hyams, E. Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton
1971, 229.)
Listing NGR: SU2498563926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 310790
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stroud, D, Capability Brown, (1975)
Hyams, E, Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton, (1971)
Wittkower, R, Palladio and English Palladianism, (1983)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,
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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