Castle Houses
CASTLE HOUSES, 46, 48 AND 50, OLD BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290919
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Houses
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE HOUSES, 46, 48 AND 50, OLD BATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290919
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Feb-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Houses
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE HOUSES, 46, 48 AND 50, OLD BATH 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:
- CASTLE HOUSES, 46, 48 AND 50, OLD BATH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 46407 67750
Details
65/1/14 OLD BATH ROAD 29-SEP-50 46, 48 AND 50 Castle Houses (Formerly listed as: BATH ROAD 36, 38 AND 40 CASTLE HOUSES) (Formerly listed as: BATH ROAD 20, 22 AND 24)
II Houses, now flats. Early C19 remodelling of group of C18 buildings.
MATERIALS: Stuccoed red brick, clay tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: The south front comprises, from E-W, Nos 46, 48 and 50 New Bath Road. Nos 46 and 48 are 3 storeys high, of 7 bays, with paired prostyle Doric porticoes, plus an eighth 2-storey bay to the W which appears to have been built as part of No 50, with which it shares a common roof; this has a full-height canted bay window. The E return of No 46 is of 3 bays, the northernmost of which is canted. Hipped roofs behind parapet. Recessed sash windows with glazing bars. No 46 also comprises a later 2-storey, 3-bay range to the N, not of special interest.
No 50 is 2 storeys high with 2 bays to the S and 3 to the W return, which has a pedimented Doric portico. Pitched roofs; parapet to S elevation, eaves to W return. Recessed sash windows with glazing bars.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
HISTORY: The buildings have been known under various names, including Castle Houses and the Castle Inn. West Berkshire Historic Environment Record refers to sources suggesting that Castle House was built as a coaching inn in 1753-55. The buildings became a private girls' school in the C19.
SOURCES: West Berkshire Historic Environment Record MWB16733
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Castle Houses, comprising 46, 48 and 50 Bath Road, are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: as a substantial group of C18 buildings remodelled in the early C19.
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Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394288
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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