Boxford House

Boxford House, Boxford, Newbury, RG20 8DP

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

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219875
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: Boxford House
Statutory Address:: Boxford House, Boxford, Newbury, RG20 8DP

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

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2005-08-04
Reference:: IOE01/14520/11
Rights:: © Mr Trevor Defferd. Source: Historic England Archive

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:: 1219875
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: Boxford House
Statutory Address 1:: Boxford House, Boxford, Newbury, RG20 8DP

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:: Boxford House, Boxford, Newbury, RG20 8DP

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Boxford
National Grid Reference:: SU 42951 71482

Details

SU 4271 11/15

BOXFORD BOXFORD Boxford House

II

Rectory, now private house. c.1825. Bath stone ashlar with slate roofs. Tudor Gothic. Two storeys and attic.

North front. Six bays with mullioned and transomed windows with hood moulds and plain parapet. Two left hand bays slightly projecting with ground floor rectangular bay window to left with embattled parapet and three trefoil leaded lights. Porch to right hand has diagonal buttresses and a parapet with corner pinnacles and carved crest. Depressed archway leading to doorway of similar style with matching door. Two first floor windows above and to left with ogee tracered lights and carved stops to hood moulds. Parapeted gable with finial above left hand window. Circular windows in two parapeted gables over far right hand bays. Two storey canted bay with embattled parapet to left.

South front. Six bays. Slightly higher three bays to right with embattled parapet. Cross windows. Ground floor canted bay with embattled parapet to right. Three bays to left with door and plain parapet. Seven stacks with moulded caps; some removed.

Interior. Double height entrance hall with bracketed landing and staircase. Panelled ceilings with moulded bosses and cornices in ground floor rooms. Three fireplaces on ground floor with depressed arches and panelled sides. Corbelled mantelpieces with carved heads. Large Gothick arches recess in wall of old dining room. South-east wing of c.1920 is of no special interest.

Listing NGR: SU4295171482

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 393745
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

Legal

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