Hop Castle
Hop Castle, Winterbourne, Newbury, RG20 8BD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221027
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Hop Castle
- Statutory Address:
- Hop Castle, Winterbourne, Newbury, RG20 8BD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221027
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Hop Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hop Castle, Winterbourne, Newbury, RG20 8BD
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:
- Hop Castle, Winterbourne, Newbury, RG20 8BD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 44654 73766
Details
SU 47SW
3/5
WINTERBOURNE
Hop Castle (approximately 300 metres to north-west of Penclose Farmhouse)
24.8.78
II*
Hunting lodge, now house. C18. Flint and bones with brick dressings. Old tile hipped roof and parapet with four corner piers and urns. Square plan, one storey and basement. Octagonal room with ogee roof, projecting in three bay south front as central canted bay. Central C20 window with stone plaque above and segmental headed glazing bar sashes with keystones, to left and right. North front with arched doorway in central recessed bay.
Interior: walls and ceilings of staircase hall and vaulted octagonal room to south covered in flint and decorated with shell patterns and pictures.
Listing NGR: SU4465473766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394581
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 307
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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