Hydraulics Research Limited
HYDRAULICS RESEARCH LIMITED, BENSON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368929
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hydraulics Research Limited
- Statutory Address:
- HYDRAULICS RESEARCH LIMITED, BENSON LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13724/11
- Rights:
- © Mrs A H Jacobs. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368929
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hydraulics Research Limited
- Statutory Address 1:
- HYDRAULICS RESEARCH LIMITED, BENSON LANE
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:
- HYDRAULICS RESEARCH LIMITED, BENSON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crowmarsh
- National Grid Reference:
- SU6153390096
Details
SU69SW
1/3
CROWMARSH
BENSON LANE
(West side)
Crowmarsh Gifford
Hydraulics Research Limited
GV
II
House, now offices. c.1850. Stone base; red brick with Bath stone dressings;
complex slate roof; various brick stacks. Complex plan. Elizabethan style. 2
storeys and attic; 5-window range. 1:3:l. 3-bay centre with one-bay cross-wings.
Stone arcaded glazed loggia with Doric pilasters. Central half-glazed double
door with round overlight. Cross window to right cross-wing. 3 cross windows to
centre first floor. 5-light stone mullion and transom window to right cross-wing
to left and right. Pierced stone balustrade to centre roof. Shaped gables to
cross wings to left and right. Octagonal tower to right with ogee lead roof.
Rear; 2 storey and attic; 5-window range. 3 French doors to centre. 2 storey bay
window to left and right with stone mullion and transom windows to bath floors.
3 cross-windows to first floor centre. Pierced stone balustrade to centre roof
and to flat tops of hay windows. Central armorial bearing. Shaped gables to left
and right. 2 dormers to centre. 2-storey, 3-window wing to left with 5-window
arcade to ground floor. Interior: Double height hall with glazed leaded screen
to lobby. Decorative encaustic tile floor. Balcony to first floor with panelled
front in Jacobean style with cupid herms to uprights of panels. Ornate plaster
panelled ceiling with brackets to cove. Enquiry Room and Library (probably
former drawing rooms) both panelled in French Rococo style. Lecture room to left
(probably former dining room) panelled in Jacobean style in oak. Staircase to
right. Open well cantilever staircase with wrought and cast iron balustrade with
wood hand rail. Coffered ceiling with central hinged figure to oval panel.
Listing NGR: SU6153390096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247221
- 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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