Hendred House and St Amands Chapel
HENDRED HOUSE AND ST AMANDS CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368665
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hendred House and St Amands Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- HENDRED HOUSE AND ST AMANDS CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368665
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hendred House and St Amands Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENDRED HOUSE AND ST AMANDS CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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:
- HENDRED HOUSE AND ST AMANDS CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Hendred
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 46092 88635
Details
EAST HENDRED HIGH STREET 5U4688 (East side) 20/77 Hendred House and St. Amand's 25/10/51 Chapel (Formerly listed as Hendred House and Chapel)
GV II*
Manor house. Probably early C15; C18 addition to right; C19 addition to left. Render, probably on stone rubble with timber-framing, to centre; render, probably on brick, to additions to left and right; old plain-tile complex roof; various brick stacks. Originally double-ended hall house. 2-storey, 4-bay centre having 2-storey cross-wings to left and right; single storey and attic cross-wing addition to right; 2 storeys and attic cross-wing addition to left. C20 five-panel door, with C20 wood surround of Doric pilasters and cornice to left of central range. 12-pane unhorned sashes with hood-moulds to ground floor of central range. 3 tall 8-pane unhorned sashes with hood-moulds to ground floor of cross-wing to right. Tripartite unhorned sash with glazing bars and hood mould to ground floor of cross-wing to left. Tripartite unhorned sash with glazing bars and hood-mould to first floor of cross-wing to right. Addition to right has tripartite unhorned sash with glazing bars and hood-mould to ground floor, and 12-pane unhorned sash with hood-mould to gable end. Addition to left has 12-pane unhorned sashes to all openings, except 9-pane sash to gable end, all with hood-moulds. C19 blind fretwork bargeboards to central cross-gables. Interior: double-height 4-bay hall to centre has central hammer-beam roof truss and arch-braced collar trusses to left and right of centre, having 2 rows of arched wind braces. C15 hall fireplace has stone surround with 4-centred arch and panelled frieze. Probably C19 straight-flight staircase and gallery to hall. Some blocked wood mullion windows visible to first floor of hall. Chapel, attached to rear of right cross-wing: probably C14, with much later remodelling. Coursed clunch rubble side walls; C19 red brick east end wall; old plain-tile roof. Lancet window to each side wall. Reticulated tracery window to east end. History: manor held by Turberville family from mid C12 to early C14. Held by Arches family from mid C14 and passed by marriage to the Eyston family in mid C15 in whose ownership it remains. The chapel reputed to be one of three built before the Reformation which have never been used for Protestant services. (Buildings of England, Berkshire, 1975, pl34; V.C.H., Berkshire, Vol 4, 1924, p295-81
Listing NGR: SU4609288635
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250115
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 134
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 295-8
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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