Banisters
BANISTERS, FLEET HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1319143
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Banisters
- Statutory Address:
- BANISTERS, FLEET HILL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1319143
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Banisters
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANISTERS, FLEET HILL
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:
- BANISTERS, FLEET HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Finchampstead
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 77634 63087
Details
FINCHAMPSTEAD FLEET HILL SU 76 SE 12/9 (north side) 26.1.67 Banisters G.V. II* Farmhouse, now large house. C16, altered C17, early C19 and mid C20. Part timber framed, part brick; old tile roof. The original timber framed house was U-plan with wings running north; one bay was added at the west end in 1683, and the south front and gables to east and west were faced with brickwork. 2 storeys and attic. The south part:- is brick and has plinth, first floor string, dentil string over first floor windows and a band of raised brickwork below eaves; coped gable ends; One C19 chimney right of centre on ridge. 5 bays, large segmental headed 3-light leaded casement windows in wood frames; projecting central porch with string over first floor windows carried round and hipped roof. On the ground floor is a 3-centred arched opening, moulded brick springers and key-block, flanked by brick pilasters with caps, and above the first floor is a semi-circular 3-light moulded and mullioned oriel window with flat lead roof and ogee brick base with date stone at foot. The east and west gable ends have one bay of casement windows, the west end attic blocked under drip mould of half round bricks, the ground floor window at this end has an early C19 Gothic cusped light. North front:- Outer original timber framed gables with the space between filled in early C19 by section with 2 smaller gables and a C20 gable to the right of these with late C20 casements and panelled garden door with glass hood over. Interior:- Large beams chamfered with plain stops on ground floor, and a late C17 staircase with barley sugar balustrade. V.C.H. Vol.III p.242. B.O.E. (Berkshire) p.144.
Listing NGR: SU7763463087
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41546
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 144
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 242
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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