Wade Court (Wade Tower East Wing and West Wing) .

WADE COURT (WADE TOWER EAST WING AND WEST WING)., WADE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271906
Date first listed:
13-Jun-1997
List Entry Name:
Wade Court (Wade Tower East Wing and West Wing) .
Statutory Address:
WADE COURT (WADE TOWER EAST WING AND WEST WING)., WADE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271906
Date first listed:
13-Jun-1997
List Entry Name:
Wade Court (Wade Tower East Wing and West Wing) .
Statutory Address 1:
WADE COURT (WADE TOWER EAST WING AND WEST WING)., WADE LANE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WADE COURT (WADE TOWER EAST WING AND WEST WING)., WADE LANE

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

County:
Hampshire
District:
Havant (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SU 72049 05346

Details

SU 70 NW
100/4/20003

HAVANT
WADE LANE (West, Off) Wade Court (Wade Tower, East Wing and West Wing)

II

Country house, divided into 3 dwellings. Circa early C18, extended in late C19 and altered in mid C20. Red brick with stone dressings, original house has front wall of vitrified brick in header bond; coursed stone rubble tower. Clay plain tile hipped and gable-ended roofs and parapets. Brick axial and lateral stacks. PLAN: long range facing north. The original early C18 house at the right (W) end was 5 bays. In the late C19 it was extended eastwards by 7 bays in a combination of Queen Anne and Jacobean styles and a large Medieval style tower was built towards the east (left) end of the front; a large porch was built on the front of the original house, bay windows were added to the ground floor and a wing built at the back. In the mid C20 the house was subdivided into 3 dwellings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic and 4-storey tower. Long 12-bay north front. Original house is 5 bays on right with header bond vitrified brick facade with plat band and red brick dressings to cambered arch 12-pane sashes with moulded cills, ground floor replaced in late C19 with stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and bay on right; at the centre a large late C19 2-storey porch with Tudor arch and stone mullions windows. 3 bays at centre added late C19 also have 12-pane sashes on first floor with cambered heads, stone string and hoodmoulds and stone mullion windows with hoodmoulds and bay on ground floor. 2 bays to left with stone windows and on extreme left (E) a large stone tower with polygonal corner turret, battlements, cornice with fleurons, diagonal buttresses and stone Gothic windows. At rear (S), late C19 gable-ended wing and stone mullion widows on left; centre raised with large bowed windows and on right an attached brick granary with blind arcading and half-hipped roof. INTERIOR: West Wing at west end contains some good Victorian features including panelled hall (some reused panellings) with large staircase with landing gallery balustrade, moulded plaster rib ceiling and stone wall with Tudor arch fireplace and ribbed canopy over; drawing room and study also panelled and with rib ceilings and stone fireplaces with Delft tiles; dining room has Gothick chimneypiece; Gothic arcaded screen on landing to attic stairs. East Wing (centre part) has panelling and chimneypiece with Delft tiles. (Sources: Kent J, Knight J, Morley J: Hampshire: July 1994: 51-53)

Listing NGR: SU7204905346

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Legacy System number:
468723
Legacy System:
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Sources

Other
Kent, J. Knight, J and Morley, J, Hampshire, (1994)

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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