ROOKESBURY

ROOKESBURY, SOUTHWICK ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1350588
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: ROOKESBURY
Statutory Address:: ROOKESBURY, SOUTHWICK ROAD

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Date:: 1999-10-09
Reference:: IOE01/02024/20
Rights:: © Mr David Easton. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1350588
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: ROOKESBURY
Statutory Address 1:: ROOKESBURY, SOUTHWICK ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ROOKESBURY, SOUTHWICK ROAD

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Winchester (District Authority)
Parish:: Wickham and Knowle
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: SU 58621 11729

Details

WICKHAM SOUTHWICK ROAD SU 51 SE 6/15 Rookesbury (formerly listed as Rookesbury Park School) 6.3.67 II*

Mansion, now a school. 1824. Walls of stucco, with 'Greek' classical details; plinth, moulded cornice below a blocking course (shallow parapet), wide pilasters of small projection, architraves to window openings (with frieze and cornice to the ground-floor). Hipped slate roof. Symmetrical treatment of the three main two-storeyed facades; the west front elevation has a porch with a window at each side, flanked by pilasters. Sashes in reveals. The porch projects with a window at each side, the Portland stone front part having four smooth columns, with pilasters (coupled on the return elevation), a pediment, Ionic details, the stone-flagged area finishing as three steps between flanking walls: within there is a doorway with an architrave, a plain frieze, and a cornice supported on console brackets, and half-glazed doors. The wider south elevation has a central full-height bay of elliptical form, 1.1.3.1.1 windows. Sashes, those to the ground floor of the outside bays being triple, in the centre a French window. The east elevation has 2.1.2 windows, and from it to the north side extends a lower two-storeyed service wing of 2.1.2 windows, linking to a taller crosswing: behind the centre of the wing rises a clock tower with an upper bell stage, square form with corner pilasters and pyramid leaded roof: in front of the wing (and masking its lower part) is a curving verandah of 6 bays, with flat roof and trellis columns. Neat C20 extensions have been built, within the L-shape of the complete service block, and beyond the verandah. Inside, the main block retains many original details, including a large entrance hall with niches, and a stone floor.

Listing NGR: SU5799411303

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Legacy System number:: 146285
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.