The Little Lodge
THE LITTLE LODGE, THE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246073
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Little Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- THE LITTLE LODGE, THE AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246073
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Little Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LITTLE LODGE, THE AVENUE
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:
- THE LITTLE LODGE, THE AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bucklebury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 58034 69928
Details
BUCKLEBURY
SU56NE THE AVENUE
1107-0/9/10007 The Little Lodge
II
House. 1924. Designed by Ernest Trobridge, for Francis Bates. Original thatched roof replaced in 1928. Timber-frame clad in wavey weatherboarding. Pantile roofs with gabled ends and deep verges and sprocketed eaves with swept-up plastered soffits. Buff-coloured brick axial stack with stepped set-offs. PLAN: Asymmetrical arrangement with a central axial stack and a porch and
service wing on the north. Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical elevations. The north entrance front has large gable with stair window, window on left corner and lower wing projecting on right with integral recessed porch and corner window on left and on the right a tall canted bay window and roof swept down to low eaves. The roof on the west side is carried down over integral outshut and bay window on the left and deeper
eaves on the right. The east elevation has a canted gable at centre. The south elevation is gabled with corner windows to left and right, French casement at centre with large hipped roof bay above with very small flanking windows. All casements with small leaded panes. INTERIOR is intact. The walls are lined in panels of compressed wet elm, a material the architect, Ernest Trobridge,
exhibited at the 1918-20 Ideal Home Exhibitions. Staircase with simple balustrade of stick balusters and square newels. Fitted furniture. ERNEST GEORGE TROBRIDGE, 1884-1942, Architect Extraordinary: Graham Paul Smith: Oxford Polytechnic: 1982.
Listing NGR: SU5803469928
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454415
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ernest George Trobridge 1884-1942 Architect Extraordinary, (1982)
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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