E House adjoining Big School to south west, Bradfield College

E House, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6BQ

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212411
Date first listed:: 29-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:: E House adjoining Big School to south west, Bradfield College
Statutory Address:: E House, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6BQ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212411
Date first listed:: 29-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:: E House adjoining Big School to south west, Bradfield College
Statutory Address 1:: E House, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6BQ

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: E House, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6BQ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bradfield
National Grid Reference:: SU 60388 72559

Details

SU 6072 12/15

BRADFIELD E House adjoining Big School to south west, Bradfield College

GV II

Dormitories and classrooms.1868, probably by Sir George Gilbert Scott in a neo-Gothic style. Flint with red brick dressings and lacing courses, Bath stone window dressings, and alternating brick and tile segmental relieving arches to windows. Old tile roof with four stacks to north-west and five tile hung gabled eaves dormers with twin sashes. Gabled cross wing projecting to left with three attic sashes, central projection between second and third dormers from left with rose window in gable end and one tile hung gabled eaves dormer with twin sash on left and right-hand return fronts. One and a half storeys.

South-east front: all windows sashes. Three first floor two-light mullioned windows in central gabled projection, central ground floor mullioned window with three Caernarvon arched lights flanked by one-light Caernarvon arched windows, and one two-light mullioned window on each floor of left and right-hand return fronts, those on ground floor with Caernarvon arched heads. Five first floor windows to right of central projection, two ground floor mullioned windows to right with two Caernarvon arched lights, and one Caernarvon arched window to left. Central first-floor two-light mullioned window flanked by one-light windows to left of central projection, and two ground floor mullioned windows to right with two Caernarvon arched lights. Three first floor windows in cross wing to left, ground floor mullioned window to right with three Caernarvon arched lights, and segmental arched boarded door to left with projecting brick surround.

Listing NGR: SU6038872559

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Legacy System number:: 396916
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Blackie, J, Bradfield College 1850-1978
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 395-396
Frowde, H, History of Bradfield College, (1900)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 97-98
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.