Breach House
BREACH HOUSE, HALFPENNY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369073
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Breach House
- Statutory Address:
- BREACH HOUSE, HALFPENNY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369073
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Breach House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BREACH HOUSE, HALFPENNY 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:
- BREACH HOUSE, HALFPENNY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Moulsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 57986 84432
Details
CHOLSEY HALFPENNY LANE SU58SE (North side) Breach House 5/80 19/08/85 II
House. c.1905. By E.P. Warren for himself. Cement render on brick; old plain-tile hipped roof; brick internal stacks. H-plan with service wing to right. Early Georgian style. 2 storey and attic. 7-window range, 2:3:2. mix-panel door to recess to centre with moulded eared architrave surround supporting segmental pediment. 2-light small-pane casements to all openings except cross-windows to first floor centre and ground floor right. All windows have ovolo-moulded surrounds, those to ground floor with floating cornices. Rectangular ovolo-moulded panels between ground and first floor. Deep eaves. Bell-cast hipped roof with hipped cross-gables to left and right. 3 hipped dormers to centre, the centre with 3-light casement, single casement to left and right. Internal stack to left of centre, end stack to right. Rear: 2 storeys and attic; 7-window range, 2:3:2. Recessed loggia to centre with 2 Doric columns. 2-light small-pane inwards-opening casements to all openings. All windows have ovolo moulded surrounds, those to ground floor left and right with floating cornices. All windows have louvred shutters. Interior: segmental arcade to hall. Ovolo moulded stone surround to hall fireplace. 2 moulded fireplaces with bracketed cornices to Drawing room to left with early C19 flower paintings built-in above. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p. 117; L. Weaver, Small Country Houses of Today, 1910, p.175-179).
Listing NGR: SU5798684432
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247964
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 117
Weaver, L, Small Country Houses of Today, (1910), 175-179
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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