Melchet Court St Edwards School
MELCHET COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1339192
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Melchet Court St Edwards School
- Statutory Address:
- MELCHET COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1339192
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Melchet Court St Edwards School
- Statutory Address 1:
- MELCHET COURT
- Statutory Address 2:
- ST EDWARDS SCHOOL
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:
- MELCHET COURT
- Statutory Address:
- ST EDWARDS SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Test Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Melchet Park and Plaitford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 27072 22266
Details
MELCHET PARK AND PLAITFORD MELCHET PARK SU 22 SE St Edwards School 1/3 Melchet Court
GV II*
Country house. 1863, fire damaged 1873, rebuilt 1875-9 all by H Clutton, re- modelled 1912-4 by D Braddell, early interior work by A Stevens and L W Collmann. Brick arch with stone dressings, plain tile roofs. Clutton's work Jacobean, Braddells Edwardian version of same. Entrance front is symmetrical with end and central Dutch gables. In centre 2 storey projecting porch has early C20 stone Jacobean doorway with cartouche over, 4 stone steps below, 4-light mullioned window over and low parapet. End bays have large 2-storey bows, with 4-light mullion and transomed window. Bays between have 4-light mullioned window with similar 3-light window over. 3-light mullioned windows in gables. Garden front is similar with rectangular 2-storey bow in centre, and canted bays at each end, with balustraded parapet. At ends and over centre in middle of building chimneys with triple moulded brick stacks. At one end, on garden front, service range remodelled early C20 with sunken garden in front, in enclosed area between gable of house and projecting wing on service range. That gable of house and service range are all that remains of 1863 house, in High Victorian Gothic, with round tower on junction with service range. On entrance side at other end C19 and C20 5 bay orangery with brick pilasters and cornice, stone arches. Under centre arch aedicule of rubbed brick and terracotta. Inside, behind porch is hall, still apparently with Steven's ceiling and grey marble fireplace, door- cases and panelling early C20. To L is staircase, said to be Stevens, but more English Baroque, and Steven's ceiling over. Steven's ceilings Italian Renaissance, designs in V & A, coffered and painted. Along R end chapel with more Jacobean that Italian ceiling, possibly Steven's and moved from dining room which lies behind staircase. Remainder of interior late C19 and early C20, except study in service range, partly in tower with Jacobean plaster by Collmann. Country Life; 1930; p176-83. N Pevsner; Buildings of England, Hampshire; Penguin; 1966; p332-3.
Listing NGR: SP3514822945
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 141124
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 332-333
Country Life in Country Life, (1930), 176-183
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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