Donnington Grove
DONNINGTON GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220450
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Donnington Grove
- Statutory Address:
- DONNINGTON GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220450
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Donnington Grove
- Statutory Address 1:
- DONNINGTON GROVE
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:
- DONNINGTON GROVE
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 45852 68959
Details
SU 46NE SHAW CUM DONNINGTON DONNINGTON
7/35 Donnington Grove 6.6.52 GV II*
House. 1772 and c.1782. John Chute. Partly vitrified grey brick; slate roof and 2 stacks. Gothick. 3 storey rectangular block with projecting bays to south-west, south-east and north-east. Service block adjoining to north-west. Glazing bar sashes with 2 lights and Gothick arched heads; some replaced by conventional sashes. String courses raised over windows; between ground and first floors and above third floor. Projecting plinth, battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles. South-west (entrance) front: 3 bays; with central projecting square bay and first floor oriel window with battlemented parapet. First floor arched niches in return walls with C20 figures. Central door and doorcase with Gothick pilasters supporting open, incurved, triangular pediment. Gothick order porch; one bay to right and left of door, with Gothick columns and pilasters supporting Gothick frieze and cornice. 2 storey, one bay addition to left with door and parapet. South-east front:3 bays with projecting central half-octagonal bay. French casements centrally and to left. 3 bay, one storey late C18 addition to right with parapet. North-east front: Central projecting square bay as south-west front. Service block adjoining to north-west:c,1800.Brick with dentil eaves cornice and slate roof. 2 storey U-shaped block. Square windows with Gothick heads. Central bellcote on ridge. Interior: Good, mainly Gothick of 1772. Main rooms include entrance lobby with Colonnaded aisles and benches, double-height top-lit staircase hall with gallery, morning room with canted bay on south-east front, Wyatt-like saloon to east added in late C18, vaulted billiard room in basement and first floor room to south-west with oriel window and rococo chimney piece. Other good rooms (see N.M.R.). A very good and complete example of C18 Gothick. B.O.E.Berkshire.p.128.Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide; Betjeman and Piper; 1949; pp.73-75. Country Life; Vol.CXXIV; pp.588-591,654-657, 714-717. N.W.R.
Listing NGR: SU4585268959
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394168
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 128
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 124, (), 588-591
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 124, (), 654-657
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 124, (), 714-717
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 73-75
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 3 Berkshire,
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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