Past Field
PAST FIELD, 9, ROTHERFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375657
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Past Field
- Statutory Address:
- PAST FIELD, 9, ROTHERFIELD ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375657
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Past Field
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAST FIELD, 9, ROTHERFIELD ROAD
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:
- PAST FIELD, 9, ROTHERFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Henley-on-Thames
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 76191 81128
Details
SU 7681 HENLEY-ON-THAMES ROTHERFIELD ROAD
(South side)
696/6/10006 No. 9
Past Field
II
Private house. Commissioned 1959, built 1960 by Patrick Gwynne for Dr and Mrs A Salmon. Extended 1967 by Gwynne as envisaged in the original concept. Purple Fletton brick and Afrormosia timber boarding. Monopitch roof with deep eaves and aerofoil shaped underside. Built with angled plan, single storey. Entrance front brick wall to left of entrance with clerestorey over, vertical Afrormosia timber boarding to right with clerestorey over. Door inset at angle, of frameless toughened glass with fixed light to side, abutting curved timber wall of bathroom. Garden front brick crosswall forms pier at inset angle. To the left, six bays beneath eaves, which are shaped and coated in Pyroc rough plaster. To the right, three bays full-height steel-framed glazing and two further bays projecting, over brick paved terrace, with octagonal window in end bay.
Interior. Pyrok ceilings throughout. Purple Fletton brick runs as paving through hall and through sliding door to living room, where it forms raised platform by fireplace, with two steps of cantilevered black terrazzo down to floor of African hardwood block, with area of brick paving continuous with external terrace. Fireplace wall of purple Fletton brick with simple recessed hearth and other openings. This and other crosswalls are shaped with shallow S curve following line of roof, with narrow flashgap joint. Exposed brick continues along back wall, with two 3.5" steel columns standing forward, supporting veneered fronted and topped unit. Black terrazzo shelves in wall. End wall vertically boarded with wide opening formed in place of original door and hatch. Dining room vertically boarded, kitchen beyond. Bathroom beside entrance with lemon yellow mosaic to dado height and angled laminated fittings. Crosswalls in bedrooms of lavender coloured sand-lime brick, shaped to roofline. Principal bedroom includes built-in desk in vertically boarded panelling.
A small, relatively low-budget house by Patrick Gwynne which reveals the essential ideas in his architecture better than do larger examples: variety of materials, effect of plan and levels, non-orthogonal geometry. The house was extended in 1967 to designs by Gwynne, envisaged in his original concept.
SOURCES: Patrick Gwynne: Houses: Privately Printed, n.d; Penelope Whiting: New Houses: 1964-: 118-122)
Listing NGR: SU7619181128
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469632
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whiting, P, New Houses, (1964), 118-122
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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