East Shefford House
EAST SHEFFORD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313006
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- East Shefford House
- Statutory Address:
- EAST SHEFFORD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313006
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- East Shefford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST SHEFFORD HOUSE
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:
- EAST SHEFFORD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Shefford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 39008 74761
Details
In the entry for:- SU 37SE GREAT SHEFFORD EAST SHEFFORD
10/6 East Shefford House
II
The entry shall be amended to read:- GREAT SHEFFORD SU37SE EAST SHEFFORD 15-0/10/6 East Shefford House
11/07/83
II House. C17-18, extended in circa 1850-60. Rendered timber-frame with gable-ended tile roofs at rear and rendered brick with hipped slate roof at front with deep bracketed eaves cornice. Rendered brick stacks, the front with bracketed cornices. PLAN: 2-room plan front range with large central stairhall, added to front of earlier, C17-18 timber-framed rear ranges. Italianate style front range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2:1:2 bay south west front. 4-pane sashes, the ground floor with pilastered architraves, bracketed cills and cornices on consoles with moulded stringcourse at this level; smaller first floor windows, the centre tripartite, in moulded architraves with bracketed cills. Central doorway with moulded elliptical arch, fanlight and double-doors with round-headed panes; large porch with pilasters, entablature and elliptical arch. Similar windows in end walls, the right [SE] end has canted bay. The gabled ranges at the rear have various sash and casement windows and at the back a single-storey outshut. INTERIOR: The front range has elaborately moulded plaster ceiling conices and roses and most of the original joinery survive, including panelled doors and a large open-well, open-string staircase with shaped tread-ends, moulded balusters and newels with pendants and a moulded and wreathed mahogany handrail. Ranges at rear have exposed ceiling beams and joists and ground and first floor rooms with some earlier linenfold panelling, said to have come from Hug Ditch Court. The roofs of the back ranges have principals with cambered collars and tenoned butt purlins; some of the timbers appear to be re-used material.
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SU 37SE GREAT SHEFFORD EAST SHEFFORD
10/6 East Shefford House
II
Large House. Part C17 and 18 but mainly early C19. Hipped slate roof with eaves cornice. Stucco on brick walls. Rectangular C19 block at front with irregular earlier wing at right angles to rear. 2 storey. 5 bays of vertical sliding sash windows with raised architraves and moulded cornices on ground floor. Large central portico with 3 light sash above.
Listing NGR: SU3900874761
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39339
- 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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