Hephaistos School, Farley Castle
HEPHAISTOS SCHOOL, FARLEY CASTLE, CASTLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319147
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Hephaistos School, Farley Castle
- Statutory Address:
- HEPHAISTOS SCHOOL, FARLEY CASTLE, CASTLE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319147
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hephaistos School, Farley Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEPHAISTOS SCHOOL, FARLEY CASTLE, CASTLE 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:
- HEPHAISTOS SCHOOL, FARLEY CASTLE, CASTLE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Swallowfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 75086 65164
Details
In the entry for;
SWALLOWFIELD CASTLE HILL SU 76 NE 9/30 (east side) Hephaistos School, 20.3.82 Farley Castle, (formerly listed as Farley Castle) GV II
The entry shall be amended to read;
SU 76 NE SWALLOWFIELD CASTLE HILL 9/30 (east side) 20.3.82 Hephaistos School, Farley Castle, (formerly listed as Farley Castle) GV II Large house,now special school. C1810 by W Fellows,altered and extended C20; restored following extensive fire damage , 1990- 91.Brick,roof partly flat and part slate,low pitched. Irregular plan with extentions at rear. 2 storeys and cellars. Turrets,first floor offset,toothed string at base of battlemented parapet. Gothick windows, all with 4-centred heads. North front; projecting bay with curved end and entrance door,flanked by single bays and half octagonal full height turrets. To the right are 2 similar bays and angle turret. 1990/1991 porch. East front ; 2 bays and angle turrets. South front; 6 bays irregular spaced with turrets between angle turrets and a C20 bay window to right. The house was also known as Wraggs Castle and was built on land called Raggets. V.C.H. Vol.111 p.268 B.O.E. (Berkshire) p.143.
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SWALLOWFIELD CASTLE HILL SU 76 NE (East side) 9/30 Hephaistos School, Farley Castle (formerly listed as 20.3.82 Farley Castle) G.V. II Large house, now special school. c1810 by W. Fellows altered and extended C20. Brick, roof partly flat and part slate, low pitched. Irregular plan with extensions at rear. 2 storeys and cellars. Turrets, first floor string, toothed string at base of battlemented parapet. Gothick windows, all with 4-centred heads,some with dripmoulds. North front:- projecting bay with curved end and entrance door, flanked by single bays and half octagonal full height turrets. To the right are 2 similar bays and angle turret. Further to the right are later C19 extensions. East front:- 2 bays and angle turrets. South front:- 6 bays irregularly spaced with turrets between angle turrets and a C20 bay window to right. The house was also known as Wraggs Castle and was built on land called Raggets. V.C.H. Vol.III p.268 B.0.E. (Berkshire) p:143.
Listing NGR: SU7508665164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41580
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 143
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 143
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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