Main Building to Farnborough Hill Convent
MAIN BUILDING TO FARNBOROUGH HILL CONVENT, FARNBOROUGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1303116
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Main Building to Farnborough Hill Convent
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN BUILDING TO FARNBOROUGH HILL CONVENT, FARNBOROUGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1303116
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Main Building to Farnborough Hill Convent
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN BUILDING TO FARNBOROUGH HILL CONVENT, FARNBOROUGH 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:
- MAIN BUILDING TO FARNBOROUGH HILL CONVENT, FARNBOROUGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Rushmoor (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 87188 56449
Details
FARNBOROUGH ROAD 1. 5238 Farnborough Main building to Farnborough Hill Convent SU 8756 4/26 13.11.75 2. Large house by H E Kendall Jun. built for T G Longman (publisher) 1863; following his death in 1879 the house was bought by the widowed Empress of Napoleon III, who extended the building (1883), which became a 'court in exile' until her heath in 1920. During the present century used as an RC public school for girls, again being extended.
Stockbroker/baronial fantasy. 2 storeys, with 5 storey tower above entrance. The ground floor is in red brick, with lavish Bath stone dressings; above is an elaborate half-timbered superstructure in a late-medieval Continental style. Steep tile roofing, pyramid octagonal lead-covered turret, mini-hips and many gables; ornate barge boards to gables and dormers. Plaster infilling to framework, some with relief carvings, bands at first and second floor level. Mullion/ transom fenestration, in wood above but stone on ground floor. Highly decorated treatment includes the monogram of the first owner. Later additions of several periods; earlier in French style but the latest in plainer neo- Georgian.
Listing NGR: SU8762456569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 137850
- 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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