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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Official list entry

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

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:: 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
Blackie, J, Bradfield College 1850-1978
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 395-396
Frowde, H, History of Bradfield College, (1900)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975)
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.