Mead House
MEAD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1339042
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Mead House
- Statutory Address:
- MEAD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1339042
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Mead House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEAD HOUSE
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:
- MEAD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Test Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Appleshaw
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 30672 48320
Details
3048 APPLESHAW APPLESHAW
7/25 Mead House (Formerly listed 20.12.60 as The Laurels) GV II*
House. Early C18, with early C19 alterations. Brick walls, and roof of slate, and tile. Queen Anne .house-with a symmetrical front (west) of 2 storeys and attic, 2.1.2 windows. Ripped slate roof with a wife eaves and plaster soffit, 3 dormers with cambered leaded roofs. Red brick walls of header bond, high plinth, stone 1st floor band and cills, openings having rubber cambered arches (now cement covered) with keystones. Sashes in reveals. The doorway (early C19) has a large moulded canopy, with ¾ Doric columns, a plain frame enclosing a Gothic fanlight and a 6-panelled door. At each side there is a wall, with a dropped curve (from band level) and then a level top extending to simple piers with stone ball finials. The south elevation of 2 windows includes early C19 alterations; hipped slate roof, 2 large sashes at the east side, and on the west side a filled window above a French window. The east elevation also has enlarged early C19 fenestration, but the roof is tiled, with 2 C20 flat- roofed dormers; there is a small ½-glazed door in the centre, below the staircase window. A single-storeyed service wing, extending eastwards, has a tile roof and a section of upper floor (C2Q) with tile-hung walls and a flat roof. The north elevation, for the most part, has walls containing (13) narrow horizontal flint bands.
Listing NGR: SU3066948318
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 140485
- 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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