Eddington House

EDDINGTON HOUSE, WANTAGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1212482
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Eddington House
Statutory Address:
EDDINGTON HOUSE, WANTAGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1212482
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Eddington House
Statutory Address 1:
EDDINGTON HOUSE, WANTAGE ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
EDDINGTON HOUSE, WANTAGE ROAD

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

District:
West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hungerford
National Grid Reference:
SU 34788 70791

Details

HUNGERFORD WANTAGE ROAD SU 37 SW 9/19 Eddington House II Large House. Early C19 to South with late C19 addition to North, porch dated 1927 mentions extension and remodelling. South part is rendered and lined out, with stucco cornice and parapet, ashlar porch with flint side walls; hipped slate roof with flanking chimneys. North part: red brick with rubbed flat arches, cement cornice and parapet; red tiled roof hipped with central chimney. 2 storeys. East elevation: to left 3 glazing bar sashes, ground floor tripartite, central projecting closed porch with doric corner columns, swan neck pediment to central doorway with pulvinated frieze; to right, 2 principal bays the right hand breaking forward with a central full height 3 window bow with french casements on the ground floor. South elevation: Ashlar C20 loggia, hexastyle in antis with ionic columns, semi-circular bow to left with 2 curved section glazing bar sashes and french case- ments below. Large service wing to rear, North East, 3 glazing bar sashes. VCH vol iv - p. 184.

Listing NGR: SU3478870791

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
396984
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 184

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Eddington House

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