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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Official list entry

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

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.

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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

SU 67 NE PURLEY HAZEL ROAD (north side)

3/14 Purley Park 25.10.51 II*

House, now home for mentally handicapped. Designed 1795 by James Wyatt for Anthony Morris Storer and started in 1801. Portland stone. Hipped slate roof. 3 storeys. Plinth, plat band between ground and first floors, parapet, and ridge stacks off-centre to left and right. 5 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. 2 central 4-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: 3 bays. Pilaster strips flanking central bay, panelled above ground floor, and central first floor tripartite sash with triangular pediment. Central ground floor bow with 4 Tuscan columns supporting entablature, 3 pairs of French casements behind with side lights, and wrought iron balustrade above. French casements with sidelights and fanlights in 2 outer ground floor bays. East front: 5 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

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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.