Hartley Court
HARTLEY COURT, HARTLEY COURT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1319124
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hartley Court
- Statutory Address:
- HARTLEY COURT, HARTLEY COURT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1319124
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hartley Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARTLEY COURT, HARTLEY COURT 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:
- HARTLEY COURT, HARTLEY COURT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shinfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 70553 68935
Details
SHINFIELD HARTLEY COURT ROAD (north side) SU 76 NW Great Lea Common
8/31 Hartley Court
26.1.67 II*
Country house. Early C16, extended late C18, altered C20. Part timber framed with painted brick infil, part painted brick, part stucco, some vertical clay tiling. Old tile roofs of varying heights some gabled, others hipped. Irregular plan. 2 storeys and a cellar and part 2 storeys and attics. 3 groups of 3 and 4 clustered shaft chimneys, with offset heads, one C19 chimney and one C16 large chimney with bread oven on the north wall. Entrance front: painted string at first floor level, moulded eaves cornice to hipped roof. 3 bays sash windows with glazing bars and segmental heads; outer bays tripartite. 2, C20 square bays on ground floor with similar windows but with square heads; C20 central enclosed entrance porch between with centre door. Garden front: similar but with 5 bays of sash windows with glazing bars in alternating bays of single and tripartite on first floor. On ground floor similar tripartite windows alternating with glazed garden door and single sash window. Sun dial on wall over string course to right of centre. Small lean-to tiled roof extension on left. Rear of house is very irregular with combination of wall materials and timber frame exposed; small one storey C20 extension. Interior: Staircase with stick balusters and wreathed handrail. In the study a fine C16 wooden overmantle and fire surround intricately carved with floral motifs; late C18 Delph tiles on cheeks of fire surround; C16 panelling in same room. 2 large trusses exposed in roof with arch braces to collar remaining. V.C.H. Vol.3. p.261. B.O.E. (Berks) p.216.
Listing NGR: SU7055368935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41459
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 216
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 261
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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