Wadley House
WADLEY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199959
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wadley House
- Statutory Address:
- WADLEY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199959
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wadley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WADLEY 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:
- WADLEY HOUSE
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:
- Littleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 31123 96036
Details
LITTLEWORTH WADLEY SU 3196
2/10 Wadley House (formerly listed as Wadley Manor) 10.11.52
- II
1768 Palladian stone house with C16 and C17 rear. Stone tiled roofs. South front built 1768 for Charles Pye, 2-storey with parapet, hipped valley roof and corniced ashlar stacks. Severe 7-window front, coursed rubble with flush ashlar quoins and window surrounds. Moulded stone cornice and simple architrave to centre first floor window with sill panel below. Fine central pedimented Roman Doric doorcase, half-columns and triglyphs in frieze. Round arched doorway with moulded arch and pilaster reveals. 4-window end elevations and rear hipped roof staircase block with cavetto eaves cornice. Modern rear porch. Interior: remodelled c.1910 in neo-Georgian style. Rear range: C16 to C17, T-plan with steep pitched roofs. Renewed brick stacks, 2 at eaves of west side, one on ridge and west wall stack on north cross range. 3-window range to west side, triple mullioned windows with arched heads to ground floor, central 3-light mullioned window above and flanking 2-light windows with hoodmoulds and dogshead label stops to north side hoodmould. Door in south face of cross wing altered to 2-light mullioned window. Crosswing north face partly rebuilt in brick with leaded light casements. 3-light stone mullioned window in east end with arched heads and hoodmould. Small rubble stone rear building with square ventilating turret on hipped roof with 2-light mullioned windows in north and east sides. Wadley was the seat of the Unton family in the C16 and was visited by Queen Elizabeth in 1574 and James I in 1603. VCH Berks.
Listing NGR: SU3112396036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249494
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 491
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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