Shaw House

Shaw House, Church Road, Shaw, Newbury, RG14 2DR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1220445
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: Shaw House
Statutory Address:: Shaw House, Church Road, Shaw, Newbury, RG14 2DR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1220445
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: Shaw House
Statutory Address 1:: Shaw House, Church Road, Shaw, Newbury, RG14 2DR

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Shaw House, Church Road, Shaw, Newbury, RG14 2DR

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shaw cum Donnington
National Grid Reference:: SU 47561 68369

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/01/2020

SU 46NE 7/54

SHAW CUM DONNINGTON CHURCH ROAD (north side) Shaw House

(Formerly listed as Shaw House School)

6.6.52

GV I

House, later school. 1581. Red brick with Bath stone dressings and old tile roof. Six stacks with two or four diamond shafts with moulded tops and rectangular bases. Parapet and gables with stone coping and ball finials. H-plan. Basement, two storeys and attic. All windows with leaded lights and H-section mullions and transoms. Plinth with moulded top; and strongly moulded string courses between floors.

South front: five gables with six-light windows and returned hood moulds in each; and four small hipped dormers. Two projecting wings to right and left with stacks on return walls. Three especially large windows to hall on ground floor to right. Central two storey Ashlar porch with Ionic pilasters supporting entablature with Greek inscription, and triangular pediment, above moulded arched doorway. Six-light window set back above with string course below; and above, with Greek inscription. Crowning triangular pediment with three finials and carved face in tympanum.

East front: three gables with two small gabled dormers between. Two canted bays with parapets rising to second storey in end bays to right and left. Large central first floor C18 nine-light window breaking into string course below. Steps to central door with stumpy Corinthian pilasters supporting entablature and triangular pediment.

North front: five gables as south, central porch with Doric pilasters supporting entablature, and depressed arched doorway below. Two storey. c.1870 addition with two arches on ground floor each side of porch. Two stacks to left and right of central gable; and two stacks in return walls of projecting wings.

Interior: Mainly late C17 and early C18. Possibly C16 stone fireplace in attic; re-used probably C16 or C17 panelling in c.1870 long gallery to north. Three rooms with C17 panelling and C17-C18 fireplaces; gun room on ground floor to south west; King Charles' room on first floor to south-east and Queen Anne's room with ionic pilasters and overmantel with blank arcade, on first floor to north-east. All other rooms with C18 panelling and stone fireplaces, including the great hall and the present staff room to north-east. Staircase hall to east with late C17 three-flight, square well staircase; with twisted balusters, wainscot panelling and C18 rococo plaster ceiling above. House built for Thomas Dolman, a local clothier, and used as headquarters by King Charles I during the battle of Newbury, 1644.

Listing NGR: SU4756168369

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Legacy System number:: 394163
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 87-88
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 213-214
'Murrays Architectural Guide' in Berkshire, (1949), 141
'Country Life' in September, (1910)
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.