WALTON HALL AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

WALTON HALL AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, GROVEWAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1332330
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: WALTON HALL AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
Statutory Address:: WALTON HALL AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, GROVEWAY

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Date:: 1999-09-21
Reference:: IOE01/01072/05
Rights:: © Dr W A Cooper. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1332330
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: WALTON HALL AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
Statutory Address 1:: WALTON HALL AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, GROVEWAY

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:: WALTON HALL AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, GROVEWAY

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

District:: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Walton
National Grid Reference:: SP 88552 37054

Details

SP 83 NE WALTON GROVEWAY north side

4/122 Walton Hall at The Open University

17.11.66

II

Small country house, now University Vice Chancellor's Office. c.1830 for Charles Pinfold, stuccoed and painted, slate roof concealed by parapet with small ogee roofed bell turret at rear. Modillion cornice. 2 storeys, 3 widely spaced bays, outer bays slightly projecting, with sash windows in architrave surrounds, the lower ones set in arched recesses. The centre bay has upper tripartite sash window with architrave surround and segmental shaped head over modern panelled door with rectangular fanlight and narrow flanking windows under a Doric portico of 4 columns entablature and triglyph frieze modillion cornice and blocking course. 3 shallow stone steps. West front has 5 bays of sash windows, outer bays slightly projecting. North block C18 red brick, hipped tile roof, hipped dormers and 2 bays of sash windows, linked to later main block by 2 window brick wing, altered. Interior: of 1830 block has contemporary screen in entrance hall, stair- case, doors, fireplaces and cornices.

Listing NGR: SP8855237054

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Legacy System number:: 45908
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.