Luckley House School

LUCKLEY HOUSE SCHOOL, LUCKLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319165
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: Luckley House School
Statutory Address:: LUCKLEY HOUSE SCHOOL, LUCKLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319165
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: Luckley House School
Statutory Address 1:: LUCKLEY HOUSE SCHOOL, LUCKLEY ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: LUCKLEY HOUSE SCHOOL, LUCKLEY ROAD

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

District:: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wokingham
National Grid Reference:: SU 80781 67198

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/11/2018

SU 86 NW; 10/38

WOKINGHAM, LUCKLEY ROAD (South side), Luckley House School

(Formerly Listed as: Luckley-Oakley School)

II

Large country house in landscaped surrounds, now private school. 1907 by Sir Ernest Newton in a free Elizabethan style. Brick with red brick quoins, hipped, tile roof. H-plan with large mid and late C2O extensions on north east. 2 storeys and attics. 2 large chimneys, one on each wing, with clustered diagonal shafts and offset heads on rectangular bases; similar on ridge of centre section but smaller. Brick plat band, bold moulded and modillioned eaves cornice. Square leaded casements. North west front:- Symmetrical. Centre part, 3 wide bays centre bay slightly projecting with 2 panelled large semi-circular moulded hood; approached by 2 stone steps. 3-light casement over, 4-light at ends on both floors. One small bull's eye to right of entrance. One bay projecting wings either side, flat roof dormer with 2-light casement on right. South east, garden front:- symmetrical, similar to north west front, with 3 flat roof dormers in centre section, one in each wing. Similar central porch with garden door leading to small paved terrace. Each projecting wing has large octagonal bays on ground floor with 8 single lights and copper domed roof; Two, 3-light casements over. B.0.E. (Berkshire) p.310.

Listing NGR: SU8078167198

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Legacy System number:: 41681
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 310

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.