LISCOMBE HOUSE AND WALL WITH PAVILION TO SOUTH OF WEST WING

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1219372
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: LISCOMBE HOUSE AND WALL WITH PAVILION TO SOUTH OF WEST WING
Statutory Address:: LISCOMBE HOUSE AND WALL WITH PAVILION TO SOUTH OF WEST WING

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1219372
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: LISCOMBE HOUSE AND WALL WITH PAVILION TO SOUTH OF WEST WING
Statutory Address 1:: LISCOMBE HOUSE AND WALL WITH PAVILION TO SOUTH OF WEST WING

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LISCOMBE HOUSE AND WALL WITH PAVILION TO SOUTH OF WEST WING

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 88595 25734

Details

SP 82 NE SOULBURY LISCOMBE PARK

3/62 Liscombe House and wall with pavilion to south of W. wing. (formerly listed as Liscombe Park House)

26.9.51

GV II*

Country House. Probably mid C17, altered late C17 and late C18. For Lovett family. English bond brick, slate roof to N., tiled pitches to N. and W. wing, old tiles to E. wing, brick chimneys. Ranges around 3 sides of a courtyard, that to E. a service wing with central gateway and stables to south. N. and W. wings altered in picturesque Gothic manner 1769 and originally roughcast. 2 storeys. N. front has castellated parapet, raised in the form of a pediment over 3 centre bays. 11 bays in all. End bays are advanced with flanking round turrets, 3 centre bays also advanced but with square turrets. Turrets have plinths, band courses and blind arrow slits. Barred sash wind6ws in heavily moulded white-painted stone architrave surrounds, some with segmental brick relieving arches. Altered doorways between end bays: left entry blocked, now with a small wooden casement; right entry has C20 6-panelled door in C20 stone architrave with pulvinated frieze and pediment, and small sash window above. Small round windows to both floors between bays 6 and 7. E. return wall has castellated porch with pointed arched doorways, 3-light triple-pointed leaded window, and 2 circular windows to first floor W. front of 7 bays has minimal giant pilasters, and band oourse to central section. 2 outer bays on each side have ogee gables with moulded copings, 3 centre bays have battlemented parapet altered to crow-stepped gables. Barred sash windows with wooden hoods. Wide half-glazed door in fifth bay has wooden surround of Doric pilasters and plain entablature. Groups of C17 square brick chimney shafts set diagonally, 4 between bays 2 and 3, 2 between bays 4 and 5. Large projecting stack to right side wall has 6 shafts, round, square and octagonal with moulded neckings, on moulded entablature base. Battlemented wall to right with pointed archway and wrought iron gate leads to small square plan pavilion with battlements, round openings, blind arch to E. and flush panelled door to S. Courtyard elevations have sash windows. Entry to W. wing has C17 white-painted shouldered stone architrave surround with pulvinated frieze, cornice and wide half-glazed door. Extensions of c.1920 in matching style in angle between N. and W. wings. These wings have lead rainwater heads, some re-sited, dated 1639, 1665, 1670 and 1774. E. range has moulded eaves cornice with dentils. 3 bays on each side of central gateway. N. part of range has 2 storeys of sash windows and re-sited C17 2-light stone mullion window, moulded and painted, in blocked arch to right of E. side. Late C17 stable bays are of one storey and attic, the W. side with 3 blocked oeil-de-boeuf windows. The E side has 3 wooden mullion and transom windows with barred casements, 2 board doors in painted stone architrave frames with keyblocks, and 2 hipped semi-dormers with hayloft door and sash window. Central mid C17 gateway has arch with raised brick keyblock, 3-light barred casement above, stepped gables and flanking pairs of pilasters with arched niches and raised brick panels between. E. side of gateway retains some capitals and lengths of entablature above the pilasters, W. side has been altered. Interior has C17 and early C18 style panelling, fireplaces and staircase all installed c.1920. May incorporate fragments. and plan of older building. RCHM II p. 268-9 Mon.3. Illustrated in Lipscombe, History of the County of Buckingham Vol. III p.467 1847

Listing NGR: SP8859525734

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 350801
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Lipscomb, G, History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, (1847), 467
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)

Legal

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