Passmore Edwards House at the National Society for Epilepsy
Passmore Edwards House at the National Society for Epilepsy, Chesham Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332525
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Passmore Edwards House at the National Society for Epilepsy
- Statutory Address:
- Passmore Edwards House at the National Society for Epilepsy, Chesham Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332525
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Aug-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Passmore Edwards House at the National Society for Epilepsy
- Statutory Address 1:
- Passmore Edwards House at the National Society for Epilepsy, Chesham Lane
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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:
- Passmore Edwards House at the National Society for Epilepsy, Chesham Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chalfont St. Peter
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 00436 92434
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 July 2025 to amend the language in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
208/6/27
CHALFONT ST PETER
CHESHAM LANE
Passmore Edwards House at the National Society for Epilepsy
(Formerly listed as: CHESHAM LANE, PASSMORE EDWARDS HOUSE, CHALFONT CENTRE FOR EPILEPSY)
30-JUL-84
GV
II
Administration block for the National Society of Epileptics. 1903-1904 to the designs of Charles Grieve. Red brick with tile hanging to first floor, tiled hipped roof with projecting timber-framed gables. The original plan was an L-shaped, two-storey building with offices and stores on the ground floor and bedrooms above; since extended. Three bay front with projecting windows and central entrance porch. This has a segmental pediment projecting from the bay above with squat columns and a frieze bearing the date 1904. Central door under arched head in timber and glass surround. Timber casements to ground floor, uPVC units above. Extensions to side and rear not of special interest.
The administrative block was named after Passmore Edwards, a noted architectural patron in the 1890s and the principal benefactor of the former Chalfont Colony founded in 1894 to give a normal, healthy village life to people with epilepsy. The colony pioneered the concept of a village community for patients with mental conditions, which was widely adopted, firstly for other epilespsy hospitals and in the inter-war period for other mental conditions. Passmore Edwards is best known as the proprietor of the Building News, a magazine that supported the Arts and Crafts Movement, and for building public libraries.
Passmore Edwards House lies in a prominent, central position at the core of the site, as befits its status. The buildings at the Chalfont Centre form an important group, for their historic interest in the treatment of epilepsy and as examples, if altered, of Arts and Crafts architecture designed to give a domestic feel to a hospital institution.
Source
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, unpublished report NBR no.100291.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44773
- 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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