Taplow House Hotel
TAPLOW HOUSE HOTEL, BERRY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332734
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Taplow House Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- TAPLOW HOUSE HOTEL, BERRY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332734
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Taplow House Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAPLOW HOUSE HOTEL, BERRY HILL
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:
- TAPLOW HOUSE HOTEL, BERRY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taplow
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 90909 81918
Details
SU 98 SW TAPLOW BERRY HILL
7/646 Taplow House Hotel (formerly listed as 13.11.73 Taplow House)
- II
Built 1751. Altered about 1800 and later, some of the later work being c1840 by Basevi for Lord Thomond; 2 storeys plus attic. Brick partly painted white. Entrance front severely plain with crenellated brick parapet. C19 sash windows and a large mid C19 Roman cement Doric columned porte cochere. Ground floor built out. Two-storey wings to right and left in similar style. Rainwater head dated 1751. Garden front with two C18 rainwater heads one inscribed '1743 RS'. Two-storey brick canted bay windows, with battlements, with a central feature in Roman cement in Tudor style with, on ground floor, a canted bay window. Wings to right and left; conservatory on left. Terrace wall of stock brick with shallow buttresses, stairs and wrought iron railings. Interior has entrance hall with Doric columns probably by Basevi; dining room said to have been built in 1800 for Pascoe Grenfell but subsequently altered. Staircase with elaborate chiselled brass balusters probably mid C19. HISTORY: The house appears to have been mentioned first in 1598. In 1628 it was given by James I to Hampson, 1st governor of Virginia. Sir Thomas Lawrence records dining here.
Listing NGR: SU9090981918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44242
- 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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