The Crazies

THE CRAZIES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1319100
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
The Crazies
Statutory Address:
THE CRAZIES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1319100
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
The Crazies
Statutory Address 1:
THE CRAZIES

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE CRAZIES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wargrave
National Grid Reference:
SU 79800 80799

Details

WARGRAVE CRAZIES HILL SU 78 SE (west side) The Crazies 1/31 26.1.67 II House. Early C20 with C18 porticoes and windows from Henley Town Hall built 1790, incorporated. Stucco, cornice, parapet to hipped slate roof, central arcaded octagonal cupola with dome and wrought iron weathervane. 2 storeys. South east front : 2 storye pedimented Doric portico with bulls eye in tympanum; ground floor has 4 Doric columns supporting plain frieze and cornice on heavy modillions, entrance door flanked by one sash window with glazing bars each side; first floor has similar columns with stone balustrading between, forming a recessed balcony with 3 bays; sash windows with glazing bars behind, and entablature with triglyph frieze. The entablature and pediment are wood. The portico has one bay on either side and flanking angular bays on return faces with sash windows and glazing bars. South west front: has a similar 2 storey portico in centre but without triglyph frieze and pediment, and with similar balustrading between upper columns. Included for the remains of old Henley Town Hall. B.O.E. (Berkshire) p.258.

Listing NGR: SU7980080799

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Legacy System number:
41325
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 258

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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