Mortimer House
MORTIMER HOUSE, MORTIMER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319607
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Mortimer House
- Statutory Address:
- MORTIMER HOUSE, MORTIMER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319607
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Mortimer House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTIMER HOUSE, MORTIMER LANE
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:
- MORTIMER HOUSE, MORTIMER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratfield Mortimer
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 67011 65136
Details
STRATFIELD MORTIMER MORTIMER LANE SU 66 NF (east side) 4/15 Mortimer House 14.4.67 II Large house, now a home for old people. Late C18 extended C19 and C20. Brick with vitreous headers, low pitched slate hipped roof of varying heights. Original plan rectangular with extensions to the left and at the rear. 2 storeys and attics. Several chimneys irregularly spaced. Plinth, red brick dressings; cornice and plain parapet with stone coping. South front: 5 bays, sash windows with glazing bars in architrave frames, rubbed brick heads: those on ground floor taller. Central bay slightly projecting with c19OO closed porch with lean-to tiled roof with pair of half glazed entrance doors with stone head. Windows to right of porch replaced early C20 with tall 4-light casement window in square bay with stone coping and flat roof. 2 bay similar wing set back on left, C19 and C20 single bay extensions recessed to left of this. Interior: C18 staircase with iron scrolled balusters, moulded tread ends,string and moulded handrail with inlaid star pattern on wreathing. Domed lantern light with cornice over staircase hall, doorcases in hall on both levels with moulded architraves, panelled linings and carved cornices. 2 Corinthian pilaster arches in principal room on ground floor. An early C17 carved wood overmantel with bead and reel ornament and early C19 firebasket in attic bedroom in C19 extension. B.O.E. (Berkshire) p.229.
Listing NGR: SU6701165136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 40006
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 229
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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