Kirby House
KIRBY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221220
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Kirby House
- Statutory Address:
- KIRBY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221220
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Kirby House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KIRBY HOUSE
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:
- KIRBY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Inkpen
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 37531 63209
Details
INKPEN Kirby House SU 36 SE 15/35 10.9.51 II* G.V. Country House. C18 with C19 and C20 additions. Grey brick with red dressings and red chamfered raised quoins; hipped tiled roofs. Double pile with later addition to south east. 2 storeys and attic. North East block; early C18 with moulded brick cornice at base of parapet and symmetrically-spaced stacks. South West block; Late C18 with moulded timber eaves cornice, three cambered headed dormers and flanking chimneys. North East Elevation: 5 glazing bar sashes with cambered heads and exposed box frames, the central three in a slight break forward of the facade which carries up to a raised parapet with pediment and central semi-circular headed sash. Central door with semi-circular fanlight under curved hood on cut brackets. North West Elevation: left hand block has three glazing bar sashes with cambered heads above large square parapetted 2 window bay to left and half glazed door in doorcase of composite fluted half columns under brackets supporting curved pedimented hood, one narrow glazing bar sash to right of this. Right hand block has three glazing bar sashes with cambered heads on upper floor and one sash to left and blocked venetian window with raised brick dressings to right. B.O.E. Berkshire, P.159. V.C.H. Vol.iv.P.200.
Listing NGR: SU3753163209
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394826
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 159
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 200
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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