B and C Houses, Bradfield College
B AND C HOUSES, BRADFIELD COLLEGE, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289482
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- B and C Houses, Bradfield College
- Statutory Address:
- B AND C HOUSES, BRADFIELD COLLEGE, RECTORY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289482
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- B and C Houses, Bradfield College
- Statutory Address 1:
- B AND C HOUSES, BRADFIELD COLLEGE, RECTORY LANE
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:
- B AND C HOUSES, BRADFIELD COLLEGE, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60428 72525
Details
SU 6072
12/19
BRADFIELD
RECTORY LANE north-west side)
B and C Houses, Bradfield College
GV
II
Dormitories and classrooms. 1897. Flint with red brick and stone dressings, lacing courses, diaper work, and large chamfered plinth. Old tile roof, slightly raised to left, half hipped to left with small tile hung gablet; 3 ridge stacks, in centre and off-centre to left and right, end stack to right, and stack in front of ridge to far left, all with oversailing tops. 13 gabled semi dormers, tile hung with 2-light leaded casements, except that third from left with parapet and 6-light mullioned and transomed window, that fifth from left with arched boarded door, and that to right with rose window containing 4 circular lights. Tile hung gabled eaves dormer to far right with 2-light leaded casement and 2 hipped louvred dormers flanking central ridge stack. Built on slope with 1½ storeys to front and 2 1/2 storeys to rear. Two 3-cusped arched light Gothic windows to right and 8 windows to left, those to far left at street level. 4-centered arched boarded door off-centre to left beneath third semi dormer from left. Large 8-light diamond leaded mullioned and transomed window in gable end to south-west. Right-hand block: 3 large gabled semi dormers, 2 to right have 4-cusped light windows with quatrefoils in plate tracery above each, that to left with 3-cusped light window and quatrefoil in gable end above. One storey and basement window. 2-light between first and second semi dormers from left. 5-light basement beneath left hand semi dormer.
V.C.H. (Berkshire),pp. 395-396; B.O.E, Berkshire, pp. 97-98; History of Bradfield College, Ed. Arthur F. Leach, Henry Frowde, 1900; Bradfield 1850-1975, John Blackie,
St. Andrew's College.
Listing NGR: SU6042872525
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396925
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 97-98
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 395-396
Frowde, H, History of Bradfield College, (1900)
Blackie, J, Bradfield College 1850-1978, ()
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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