HILL HOUSE LITTLE COURT PANGBOURNE ENGLISH CENTRE

HILL HOUSE, 29, SHOOTER'S HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1214033
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:: HILL HOUSE LITTLE COURT PANGBOURNE ENGLISH CENTRE
Statutory Address:: HILL HOUSE, 29, SHOOTER'S HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1214033
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:: HILL HOUSE LITTLE COURT PANGBOURNE ENGLISH CENTRE
Statutory Address 1:: HILL HOUSE, 29, SHOOTER'S HILL
Statutory Address 2:: LITTLE COURT, 31, SHOOTER'S HILL
Statutory Address 3:: PANGBOURNE ENGLISH CENTRE, 27, SHOOTER'S HILL

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:: HILL HOUSE, 29, SHOOTER'S HILL
Statutory Address:: LITTLE COURT, 31, SHOOTER'S HILL
Statutory Address:: PANGBOURNE ENGLISH CENTRE, 27, SHOOTER'S HILL

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 63108 76764

Details

SU 6376 PANGBOURNE SHOOTER'S HILL (south side)

6/1 No.27, Pangbourne English Centre, No.29 (Hill House), And No. 31 (Little Court) 7.12.71 - II*

House, now 2 houses, school and Masonic hall. 1898, by Leonard Stokes in a free neo-Georgian style. Later additions set back to right. Red brick with plum brick panels in left-hand block, and rendered first floor in centre with flanking pilaster strips. Tile hanging in gable end to left and in right-hand blocks, and tile roof. Lead downpipes and rainwater heads. Irregular skew plan with 2 gables to front. 2 storeys and attic. Centre block: first floor jettied on shaped brackets with fluted and moulded bressumer, pulvinated frieze, and deep dentil eaves cornice. 2 segmental arched dormers with 3-light casements in left and right-hand return fronts, end stack to left with arched panel and rusticated corners, and stack to right at rear. Central first floor canted bay with cornice, and 2 flanking 4-light casements with radial fanlight over centre 2 lights and cornice above. 2 ground floor canted bays with large mullioned and transomed windows, and 2 central arched half glazed panelled doors with 3- light overlights and moulded architraves. Arched doorway in right-hand return front, and ground floor semi circular bay in left-hand return front with 2-light casement and cornice. Left-hand block: plinth, dentil eaves cornice, long dormer with four 4-light, casements, and tapered end stack to left. Right-hand block: 2 first floor glazing bar sashes. 2 ground floor casements flanking central arched glazed door with cornice above. Further additions set back to right with tile hung first floor, hipped roof and 2 stacks. Rear: projecting wing with 2 pilaster strips supporting pedimented gable end with keyed circular window in rendered tympanum. Canted bay to east. Main entrance with two 2-panelled doors, heavily moulded stone architrave, segmental stone hood with dentil cornice, and carved coat of arms in tymmpanum. Segmental ground floor bay to rear of left-hand block with casement and cornice. Interior: much painted panelling throughout. Staircase with twisted balusters, 2 ground floor rooms with delicate plaster ceilings and classical fireplace surrounds. Left-hand block was formerly a picture gallery. This house is one of the most inventive of those in the free neo-Georgian practised by many Arts and Crafts architects circa 1900. Formerly known as Shooter's Hill House. B.0.E, Berkshire, p.192; Berkshire Architectural Guide, Betjeman and Piper, Murray, 1949, p.137; Edwardian Architecture, Alastair Service, Themes and Hudson, 1977, pp. 170-171.

Listing NGR: SU6310876764

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Legacy System number:: 398745
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 192
Service, A, Edwardian Architecture a Handbook to Building Design in Britain 1890-1914, (1977), 170-171
'Murrays Architectural Guide' in Berkshire, (1949), 137

Legal

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