Poundon House and Walls of Terrace and of Forecourt
POUNDON HOUSE AND WALLS OF TERRACE AND OF FORECOURT, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214765
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Poundon House and Walls of Terrace and of Forecourt
- Statutory Address:
- POUNDON HOUSE AND WALLS OF TERRACE AND OF FORECOURT, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214765
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Poundon House and Walls of Terrace and of Forecourt
- Statutory Address 1:
- POUNDON HOUSE AND WALLS OF TERRACE AND OF FORECOURT, MAIN STREET
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:
- POUNDON HOUSE AND WALLS OF TERRACE AND OF FORECOURT, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poundon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 64523 25159
Details
SP 62 NW POUNDON MAIN STREET
2/87 Poundon House and walls of terrace and of forecourt -
GV II
Mansion. Dated 1908 on foundation stone. Built by local firm Lewis Penn for J.P.H. Heywood-Lonsdale Esq. Dressed ironstone with plinth, moulded band course, chamfered quoins and wooden eaves cornice on brackets. Hipped stone slate roof. Dressed stone chimneys with square shafts set diagonally. H-plan. In the style of c 1700. 2 storeys and attic. S.E. front has 9 bays, 2 outer bays on each side projecting. Barred sash windows in architrave surrounds, those to ground floor with keyblocks. Slightly projecting centre bay has pediment with wooden mouldings, and glazed and barred double doors in architrave surround with entablature and swan-neck pediment. 2 attic dormers have 5-light leaded casements with small central pediments. U-plan service wing to right has basement, main storey with cross windows, and hipped-dormers with paired leaded casements. Garden walls attached to front corners of house curve round to relieving wall of terrace. These walls are of ironstone with rusticated gate piers. Rear of house facing road, is irregular with Serlian window to left of centre, groups of 3 sash windows to right, and open pediment to centre bay. Door has flanking Doric pilasters, triglyph entablature and segmental pediment. Attached low ironstone walls to forecourt.
Listing NGR: SP6452325159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399693
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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