Charters

Charters, Charters Road, Sunninghill, Ascot, SL5 5PX

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323676
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: Charters
Statutory Address:: Charters, Charters Road, Sunninghill, Ascot, SL5 5PX

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323676
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: Charters
Statutory Address 1:: Charters, Charters Road, Sunninghill, Ascot, SL5 5PX

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.

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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:: Charters, Charters Road, Sunninghill, Ascot, SL5 5PX

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

District:: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sunningdale
National Grid Reference:: SU9405567247

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/01/2020

SU96NW 599-1/15/38

SUNNINGDALE Sunninghill Charters Road Charters

[Formerly listed at KINGS ROAD (South side (off))]

28/09/95

GV II

Large country house in parkland, now offices. 1938 by Adie, Button and Partners for Frank Parkinson. Altered and extended mid C20. Brick faced with small Portland stone slabs, reinforced concrete flat roof with parapet. L-plan with extension in similar style on west.

EXTERIOR: two storeys. Metal casement windows with glazing bars. Entrance (north) front: irregular. Two wings project forward at a lower level, the left projection has a 10-light window at first floor, the right projection an 18-light window at first floor. At ground floor level a 10-light window on the left which is continuous with a glazed entrance porch, containing double glazed entrance doors and a flat canopy over. To the right is a window similar to the first floor window over it. Between the two projections set back above the entrance is a six-light window.

On the right, projecting well forward is the former service wing with similar fenestration.

Garden (south) front: irregular. To the right of centre is a five-bay section, glazed the whole height with small panes on the upper levels. Above this the parapet is broken with an iron balustrade insert. To the left there are seven tall windows; three seven-light windows above at first floor. To the right three similar windows at ground floor; on the first floor a three-light window on the left and a five-light window on the right, turning the corner to 10-lights on the eastern return. On the left the extension projects well forward.

INTERIOR: entrance hall: black marble dog-leg staircase, wrought-iron baluster with classical motifs. Doors with bronze grilles, moulded architraves with bead and reel and leaf ornament; dentilled cornices with egg and dart enrichment. Boardroom: panelled. Ceiling cornice enriched with bead and reel and leaf ornament. Swan-neck pediment over two double doors, with cherubs and foliage in cornice. An elaborate bathroom also survives.

Listing NGR: SU9405567247

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 24 November, (1944)
'Country Life' in 1 December, (1944)
'Country Life' in 8 December, (1944)

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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.