Army House, Bradfield College
Army House, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289643
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Army House, Bradfield College
- Statutory Address:
- Army House, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AX
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289643
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Army House, Bradfield College
- Statutory Address 1:
- Army House, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AX
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:
- Army House, Bradfield College, Bradfield, Reading, RG7 6AX
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 60465 72615
Details
SU 6072
12/17
BRADFIELD
ASHAMPSTEAD ROAD (south-west side)
Army House, Bradfield College
GV
II
Dormitories and classrooms. Circa 1865, probably by Sir George Gilbert Scott.
South-west front: flint with brick dressings and lacing courses Bath stone window dressings, alternating tiled and brick first floor window relieving arches with patterned brickwork in tympana, and diapered fish-scale tile hung attic. Old tile roof; six tile hung gabled semi dormers with twin sashes, large end stack to right, stack to rear at left, and stack to front corbelled from attic off-centre to right, all diapered and multi-shafted with oversailing tops. One and a half storeys. Six first floor two-light mullioned windows with sashes, four ground floor two-light mullioned windows with sashes, and three-light mullioned window with sashes between first and second two-light windows from left. Segmental arched boarded door off-centre to left and gabled timber framed porch with arch braced entrance.
Right-hand block: one and a half storeys set back with gabled semi dormer and two-light ground floor window. Wing projecting to right with jettied attic, sash in tile hung gable end, and end stack to right with three diagonally set shafts and oversailing tops. Two first floor Caernarvon arched windows, and boarded door with C20 gabled rustic porch. Tower projecting from left-hand return front: Flint with brick dressings. Square ground floor with broaches to semi circular first floor, and square tile hung attic on timber braces with gable and two sashes to north. Small rectangular windows in each floor to north.
North-east front: large assymetrical composition with irregular fenestration. Main elements include: jettied tile hung attic gable to left, two tile hung gabled semi dormers, large stack to right, and semi circular stair tower off centre to right with square base and conical tile roof. Large first floor three-light mullioned window to left with tiled relieving arch and patterned brickwork in tympanum.
Listing NGR: SU6046572615
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396722
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975)
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, ()
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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