Speakers House
SPEAKERS HOUSE, 44, HART STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218864
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Speakers House
- Statutory Address:
- SPEAKERS HOUSE, 44, HART STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218864
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Speakers House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPEAKERS HOUSE, 44, HART 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:
- SPEAKERS HOUSE, 44, HART STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Henley-on-Thames
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 76241 82643
Details
1. HART STREET 5355 (South Side)
No 44 (Speakers' House) [Formerly listed as part of No 48 and No 50 (Speakers' House)]
SU 7582 1/287 25.1.51.
II GV
2. C15/l6 and later, timber framed house with some sham painted timber on facade. Plaster infill, partly roughcast. Old tiled roofs. Western part 1 1/2 storeys, 1 leaded casement in gable end to street. Ground floor underbuilt. Large 6-light window with mullions and transoms below moulded bressumer. Additional small ground floor window. Fanlight to former door. Eastern part of 2 storeys, lst floor jettied out, canted bay with mullions transom and leaded glazing below gable. Ground floor has large 8 light window with mullions and transoms. 6 panelled door fielded with fanlight above, leaded glazing. William Lenthall, Speaker of the Long Parliament (1640-53) was born here in 1591.
Nos 2 to 8 (even) Nos 14 to 36 (even) including Adam House, and Nos 40 44, and gates and piers 48, 50, The Old School House and the Rectory Garden Wall form a group with Nos 5 to 39 (odd), the Drinking Fountain, the Parish Church of St Mary and the raised pavement at the east end of Hart Street.
Listing NGR: SU7623982641
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246174
- 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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