Pillar House, Pillar House East, and Attached Stone Piers
PILLAR HOUSE, PILLAR HOUSE EAST, AND ATTACHED STONE PIERS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199813
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Pillar House, Pillar House East, and Attached Stone Piers
- Statutory Address:
- PILLAR HOUSE, PILLAR HOUSE EAST, AND ATTACHED STONE PIERS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199813
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pillar House, Pillar House East, and Attached Stone Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- PILLAR HOUSE, PILLAR HOUSE EAST, AND ATTACHED STONE PIERS, 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:
- PILLAR HOUSE, PILLAR HOUSE EAST, AND ATTACHED STONE PIERS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SU4919389232
Details
HARWELL HIGH STREET
SU4989 (East side)
9/110 Pillar House, Pillar House
East, and attached stone piers
(Formerly listed as Pillar
House)
GV II
House, now 2 dwellings. Probably mid C19. Rendered plinth; painted brick, with
painted stone quoins; slate hipped roof; brick end stack to right, ridge stack
to left return. ltalianate style. 2-storey, 3-window range 2-panel door to
centre with decorative fanlight and architrave surround. Square flat-roofed
porch with fluted Doric columns in front and plain Doric pilasters flanking
doorway. Porch has triglyph cornice. 12-pane unhorned sashes with painted stone
architrave surrounds to all openings. Moulded stone band between ground and
first floors. Bracketed cornice to eaves. Interiors not inspected. Attached
painted stone piers to each end of street front form front court-yard. History:
formerly trio home of artists John Henry Frederick Bacon (1865-1914) and L.
Leslie Brooke (1862-1940)
("Harwell, Village for a Thousand Years": Pub. Harwell P.C. 1985)
Listing NGR: SU4919389232
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249973
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harwell Village for a Thousand Years, (1985)
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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