HURST HOUSE

HURST HOUSE, LODGE ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319478
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: HURST HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HURST HOUSE, LODGE ROAD

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319478
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: HURST HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HURST HOUSE, LODGE ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HURST HOUSE, LODGE ROAD

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

District:: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Nicholas, Hurst
National Grid Reference:: SU 79328 73160

Details

SU 77SE ST NICHOLAS HURST LODGE ROAD (east side)

5/16 Hurst House

26.1.67 II

Large country house. Built by Richard Ward in 1530, rebuilt in 1847 by the Rev. A.A.Cameron, Vicar of Hurst, incorporating some old material. Brick, stone strings, old tile roof, large chimney stacks. 2 storeys and attic. North front:- double gabled main part, the left hand gable with 4-light stone mullioned attic window, 4-light stone mullioned and transomed windows on lower floors, the right hand gable set back with 2-light mullioned attic window, lower floors similar to left hand gable. To left hand an irregular section with entrance porch. South front:- left hand wing set back with gable facing west and chimney stack on south side with octagonal and rectangular shafts, moulded and offset heads. Main part double gabled, each gable with vent slit at attic level, irregular first floor windows, 2 large 10 and 12-light stone mullioned and transomed windows on ground floor, door in angle of projecting gabled wing to right hand, which has a 2 storey angular bay facing south with stone cresting and hipped lead roof, 6-light mullioned and transomed windows on front, 2-light similar at sides. Some upper windows have moulded wood mullions, probably from the original building. Interior: Dining room contains elaborate C17 oak panelling, fluted pilasters, carved caps and entablature, carved frieze, and a stone chimney piece, 2 tiers of similar design. The Tudor-style plaster ceiling dates from the re-building. In the study a C17 bolection moulded fireplace surround, and in the drawing room a C16 marble chimney piece. In the hall large moulded and stop chamfered oak door frames. VCH. Vol.111. p.248. B.O.E.Berkshire p.210.

Listing NGR: SU7932873160

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 41244
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 248
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 210

Legal

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