Purley Park
Purley Park, Hazel Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288453
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Purley Park
- Statutory Address:
- Purley Park, Hazel Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288453
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Purley Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- Purley Park, Hazel Road
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:
- Purley Park, Hazel Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Purley on Thames
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 66525 75857
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 July 2025 to amend the language in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SU 67 NE
3/14
PURLEY
HAZEL ROAD (north side)
Purley Park
25.10.51
II*
House, now home for people with learning disabilities. Designed 1795 by James Wyatt for Anthony Morris Storer and started in 1801. Portland stone. Hipped slate roof. Three storeys. Plinth, plat band between ground and first floors, parapet, and ridge stacks off-centre to left and right. Five bays, glazing bar sashes with blind boxes. Central wider bay flanked by pilaster strips, panelled above ground floor, and central first floor tripartite sash with triangular pediment. Two central four-Panelled doors flanked by pilaster strips and glazing bar sashes with cornice above. Porte cochère with coupled Tuscan columns supporting full entablature with wrought iron balustrade above.
Garden front: three bays. Pilaster strips flanking central bay, panelled above ground floor, and central first floor tripartite sash with triangular pediment. Central ground floor bow with four Tuscan columns supporting entablature, three pairs of French casements behind with side lights, and wrought iron balustrade above. French casements with sidelights and fanlights in two outer ground floor bays.
East front: five bays. Late C18 two storey service block to west of white painted brick with slate roofs.
Interior: complete C18 ensemble. Entrance hall with delicate plaster ceiling, screen of Ionic columns to north with lower ceiling, niches to east and west, and doorcases with urns and husk festoons; double height staircase hall with curved wall to south, 2-flight stone staircase and wrought iron balustrade with intersecting ovals, delicate plaster ceiling and wall plasterwork. C18 fittings in other ground floor rooms including fireplaces, doors, doorcases, plaster friezes and delicate plaster ceilings. Enclosed second floor gallery with lunettes and central oval lantern with plaster decoration.
B.O.E, Berkshire, pp.194-195; Berkshire Architectural Guide, Betjeman and Piper, Murray. 1949, p.137.
Listing NGR: SU6652575857
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399595
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 194-195
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 137
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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