Devitt House, Pangbourne College

Devitt House, Pangbourne College, Pangbourne Hill, Pangbourne, RG8 8LA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1213514
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: Devitt House, Pangbourne College
Statutory Address:: Devitt House, Pangbourne College, Pangbourne Hill, Pangbourne, RG8 8LA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1213514
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: Devitt House, Pangbourne College
Statutory Address 1:: Devitt House, Pangbourne College, Pangbourne Hill, Pangbourne, RG8 8LA

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:: Devitt House, Pangbourne College, Pangbourne Hill, Pangbourne, RG8 8LA

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pangbourne
National Grid Reference:: SU 61915 75545

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/01/2020

SU 67 NW 2/43

PANGBOURNE Pangbourne Hill Devitt House, Pangbourne College

[Formerly listed under BERE COURT ROAD (north-west side)]

II*

House, now college. 1897-8, by John Belcher in a free William and Mary style. Red brick with raised quoins, and some Bath stone. Wooden bracketed eaves cornice, and stone cornice in centre, to hipped slate roof with six stacks. Hipped projecting wings in each pair of end bays. Eight flat topped dormers, two flanking centre half octagonal. Two storeys and attic; irregular nine bay south front, glazing bar sashes, with louvred shutters in outer bays. Central stone frontispiece consisting of triangular pediment with Venetian window in tympanum, carved cornice above, and flanking pilaster strips. Wide first floor window flanked by pilaster strips with carved capitals, and narrow windows. Open swan necked pediment with carved coat of arms in tympanum over central French casements flanked by pilaster strips with carved stops, and narrow windows. Two storey towers projecting from and flanking end bays, with ashlar ground floors, arched on three faces with keystones, and with flanking Ionic pilasters supporting full entablature; first floor keyed circular windows, flanking pilaster strips, and ogee copper caps above.

Terrace: brick wall with stone coping. Central steps with scrolled parapet to central projecting bow, central arch and keystone flanked by paired blocked pilasters supporting half frieze and cornice, stone seats inside, and flanking dog-leg flights of steps.

Entrance front: large four storey Scottish Baronial tower of red brick and stone. Large central three storey arched recess with keystone, and canopied niches on third floor flanking plaque with angel and ship. Balustraded parapet with gabled corner turret to east. Porch below with arched entrance, channelled rustication, and parapet with heraldic device.

Interior: domed porch. Hall with Scottish Baronial hooded stone fireplace. Entrance front corridor with five smaller domes, and columns with capitals of ships in windows. Neo-Rococo doors with onyx panels, at each end leading to stairs with foliated panel balustrades and foot volute scrolls. Library with panelling. The house was formerly known as Pangbourne Tower.

Listing NGR: SU6191575545

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Legacy System number:: 397995
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 192
'Murrays Architectural Guide' in Berkshire, (1949), 137
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.