Swanbourne House School
SWANBOURNE HOUSE SCHOOL, SWANBOURNE HOUSE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215266
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Swanbourne House School
- Statutory Address:
- SWANBOURNE HOUSE SCHOOL, SWANBOURNE HOUSE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215266
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Swanbourne House School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWANBOURNE HOUSE SCHOOL, SWANBOURNE HOUSE HILL
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:
- SWANBOURNE HOUSE SCHOOL, SWANBOURNE HOUSE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Swanbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7992027062
Details
SP 72 NE
2/151
SWANBOURNE
SWANBOURNE HOUSE HILL
Swanbourne House School
GV
II
School, formerly mansion with attached service wing. Dated 1865 on
rainwater heads. By William Burn for Fremantle family. White brick
with stone dressings, slate roofs and white brick chimneys with moulded
stone caps. Classical in style with quoins, moulded plinth with stone
panels below ground floor windows, second floor sill course, moulded
cornice and balustraded parapet. 3 storeys, N. front of 5 bays, the
outer bays slightly projecting, Sash windows, those to ground floor
without glazing bars and in architrave surrounds with plain friezes and
moulded cornices above. Upper windows have shouldered architraves.
Centre has projecting single storey porch with balustraded parapet,
similar sashes to sides, and double panelled doors in architrave surround
with flanking Doric columns and entablature. Right side of 3 bays has
canted bay windows to ground floor of outer bays. Rear has 7 bays,
the outer pair of bays on each side projecting slightly with ground
floor windows set back in segmental relieving arches. Service block
to east has plain parapet, cornice, first floor band course, plinth
and plain window surrounds. 2 storeys, 9 bays. 4 left bays project.
2 bays to left have barred windows to ground floor, remainder have
sashes. 4-panelled door in right-hand bay has porch with pair of
arches on Doric piers.
Listing NGR: SP7992027062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400370
- 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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