Lovett House and Wall Attached to Rear
LOVETT HOUSE AND WALL ATTACHED TO REAR, 1, CHAPEL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1219292
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Lovett House and Wall Attached to Rear
- Statutory Address:
- LOVETT HOUSE AND WALL ATTACHED TO REAR, 1, CHAPEL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1219292
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lovett House and Wall Attached to Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOVETT HOUSE AND WALL ATTACHED TO REAR, 1, CHAPEL 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:
- LOVETT HOUSE AND WALL ATTACHED TO REAR, 1, CHAPEL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Soulbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 88284 27108
Details
SP 82 NE SOULBURY CHAPEL HILL
3/43 No. 1 (Lovett House) and wall attached to rear (formerly listed as The Old School House)
26.9.51
GV II*
House Very worn stone plaque to centre front is inscribed: "Lovett's Charity School and Schoolhouse 17?" (1724 according to Pevsner and VCH) Possibly designed by Thomas Harris of Cublington. Red and vitreous brick with red brick quoins, window surrounds, first floor band course and moulded eaves Moulded plinth. Tiled roof with brick coped gables, and brick chimneys to gables and between bays 6 and 7. 2 storeys and attic, 9 bays Main floors have leaded cross casements with moulded brick sills, ground floor, windows with gauged brick heads, first floor windows with moulded brick lintels. Attic has 4 hipped dormers with paired leaded casements. Blocked basement window to left of centre. Entries in bays 3 and 7 have 6-panelled doors with rectangular fanlights, and moulded segmental hoods on carved scroll brackets. Right hood slightly altered. Stone plaque below central first floor window. Similar stone plaque in chamfered brick surround in left gable end. Rear is more irregular and has similar windows with gauged segmental heads, some blocked. Bay to right of centre has gable above eaves cornice, and staircase window. Interior has good early C18 staircase with twisted balusters, moulded handrail and square newel posts with pendent finials. Small stone fireplaces, stop-chamfered spine beams. Room to ground floor right may have been original school room Short length of wall attached to N.W. corner is of red brick with blue diapers and semi- circular coping.
VCH III p.415.
Listing NGR: SP8828427108
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350781
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, (1960)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1908), 415
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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