WOBURN PARK

WOBURN PARK, WOBURN HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260104
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:: WOBURN PARK
Statutory Address:: WOBURN PARK, WOBURN HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260104
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:: WOBURN PARK
Statutory Address 1:: WOBURN PARK, WOBURN HILL

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.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WOBURN PARK, WOBURN HILL

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Runnymede (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 05936 65291

Details

1. 966 WOBURN HILL ADDLESTONE Woburn Park TQ 06 NE 3/67A

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2. Architect William Kent, circa 1748; seriously altered in late C19 when the 2 storey elevations were cement rendered and completely changed. Inside there is a late C18 or early C19 stair with delicate metal balustrade, and some of the 1st floor rooms have C18 cornices, and panelling of ordinary type but original date. Woburn Park or Woburn Farm as it was known in the C18 was the seat of Phillip Southcote who in the 1740's transformed the estate into a "ferme ornee" or ornamental farm the essentials for which were fields for cattle or crops, decorated with statuary, vases, temples, archways and other features. Reference in H F Clark's English Landscape Gardens, with reproduction of old front of house and estate. Very little survives of the famous lay-out either architecturally or otherwise but some remaining structures merit listing.

Woburn Park and the listed structures within the grounds, form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ0593665291

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 361715
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Clark, H F , English Landscape Gardens
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 40 Surrey,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.