Watlington House
WATLINGTON HOUSE, 44, WATLINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1321898
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Watlington House
- Statutory Address:
- WATLINGTON HOUSE, 44, WATLINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1321898
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Watlington House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATLINGTON HOUSE, 44, WATLINGTON STREET
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:
- WATLINGTON HOUSE, 44, WATLINGTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Reading (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 72247 73167
Details
WATLINGTON STREET 1. 5128 (West Side) No 44 (Watlington House) SU 7273 7/257 22.3.57. II 2. In 2 parts The western part built 1688 for Samuel and Anne Watlington, see rainwaterheads: 1688 W S A The eastern part said to have been added 1763 (Probably earlier). The whole is a rectangle of red and silver grey brick with a raised brick string at 1st floor level. Moulded and bracketed wood eaves cornice. Hipped old tile roof, brick end chimneys, dormered to west; valley roof with dormers facing valley. East front: 2 storeys and attic with modillion eaves cornice. 2 large flanking 3-light windows, glazing bar sashes and 2 dormers. Central, possibly circa 1688, double doors each of 5 heavily moulded panels with moulded architrave surround, frieze and cornice supported by flanking curved consoles and with carved keystone. Cornice breaks forward over consoles. Single central 1st floor window over. The west front: 2 storeys, attic and basement. 4 dormers with moulded pediments and C18 casements. 4 ranges of C18 glazing bar sash windows over 4 basement windows and central garden door with moulded architrave surround in trellis porch and central half-landing stair window above it under a moulded brick pediment. A single storey service wing to right. Original mullion and transom windows on ground floor of north front. Interior: panelled hall with 2 arch screen on fluted piers. Turned balusters to stairs (straight string), double ramped nmhogazy dado rail and baluster rail, panelled. dado (circa 1740 probably). Samuel Watlington was Mayor of Reading in 1695 and in 1711.
Listing NGR: SU7224773167
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39227
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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