PENTON CLOSE

PENTON CLOSE, CHALKCROFT LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1339079
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: PENTON CLOSE
Statutory Address:: PENTON CLOSE, CHALKCROFT LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1339079
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: PENTON CLOSE
Statutory Address 1:: PENTON CLOSE, CHALKCROFT LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PENTON CLOSE, CHALKCROFT LANE

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Test Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Penton Mewsey
National Grid Reference:: SU 33023 47439

Details

3347 PENTON MEWSEY CHALKCROFT LANE

8/13 Penton Close

GV II

House, former rectory. c1860. Brick and flint walls, with a tiled roof. An elaborate Tudor/Gothic design with a near-symmetrical front (east) of 2 storeys and attic, 1.1.1 windows, extended northwards with a wing of 1 storey, 1.1. windows. A centrepiece projects forward to form a deep porch, with diagonal buttresses, and the openings at each side are set in slight projections: the centre has a steep gable and the side units ) gables supporting attic windows (with a gable above forminga dormer): the wing is set back, with the let window set within a gabled projection. The gables and cheeks of the dormer are hung with patterned tiles and the fronts have wavy pierced bargeboards. The centre gable (with attic window) has a plain bargeboard above a verge comprising a stepped brick fascia with dentils above and diagonal dentils below; this pattern is repeated at the (lower) eaves moulding to the front, the lower dentils omitted across the projections. The walls are of yellow brickwork, with a rich panelwise decoration of flush squared knapped flintwork, with raised brick crosses on shields within the larger panels; 1st floor weathered moulding, plain plinth: the window openings are chamfered, and there is a hoodmould above the wide Tudor arch of the porch, the feet of the buttresses extend to a short pier with a Gothic stone cap. Casements, with transoms to the ground floor, of 3 lights at the south side and 4 at the north; above the porch is a splayed oriel with transoms tiled roof, and moulded base. Within the porch, which has a traceried window at each side, there are small traceried lights on each side of the plain doorways, .the door being ½- glazed. The wing has the same elevation treatement with a stepped hoodmould and . shields within the gable. The rear elevation has similar detailing, but is a symmetrical, with a wide gable at the south side containing an attic window above a 2 storeyed splayed bay; a recessed centre has an oriel (staircase) window above a blind Tudor arch. The south elevation has an .elaborate stepped chimney stack, with arched recesses, and 5 octagonal flues. The northside lower wings ends in a double gable, the west sideprojection to form an arched porch. at the corner, from which extends a narrow westward service wing; the elevations on this side are plain, of red brickwork in Flemish bond with blue headers, casement windows and arched entrances. The staircase and entrance hall are original.

Listing NGR: SU3304047482

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Legacy System number:: 140574
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.