BINFIELD PLACE

BINFIELD PLACE, FOREST ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1390270
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: BINFIELD PLACE
Statutory Address:: BINFIELD PLACE, FOREST ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1390270
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: BINFIELD PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: BINFIELD PLACE, FOREST 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BINFIELD PLACE, FOREST ROAD

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

District:: Bracknell Forest (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Binfield
National Grid Reference:: SU 84030 70953

Details

BINFIELD

SU87SW FOREST ROAD 674-1/11/62 (North side) 07/12/66 Binfield Place

II*

House, now offices. Mid C16, altered and extended C17, C19 and c1930. MATERIALS: mostly old brick, some with diaper pattern of vitreous headers. Some brick is in English bond, some is in Flemish bond. Part timber frame encased in brick. Old tile hipped roofs. PLAN: former plan of 4 framed bays, extended on west and south, now irregular. EXTERIOR: part 2 storeys, part 2 storeys and attic, with cellar. 3 chimneys, one with diagonal shafts set on square bases, and with offset heads. One chimney bears the date 1702. C20 diamond-leaded casements. Entrance (south) front: 3, single bay projections with hipped roofs. Left hand projection has entrance porch, slightly overhangs at first floor level and has 2-light window, plank door with pointed head and brick arch at ground floor. Together with single bay section on left dated C20. Middle projection contains staircase and has large window with pointed head, and brick arch. Window has transom and inter-laced glazing bars. Third projection on right has platband and coved and moulded eaves cornice, and 3-light window on ground and first floor. On left return of this projection, door of 8 fielded panels with segmental head approached by 4 brick steps. Recessed section of 2-bays between second and third sections has platband, with 3-light windows on both floors. INTERIOR: contains much C16 and C17 panelling on both floors in older section. Conference room: exposed large chamfered joists, principal beam with chamfers and plain stops. Part C16, part C19 panelling. Stone fireplace with roll mouldings partly re-modelled. Office adjoining conference room: exposed large joists and principal beams with roll mouldings, hollow chamfers and painted floral decoration with Tudor roses. C18 panelling and C17 chalk fireplace with roll mouldings on jambs and head. Rooms over these ground floor rooms have C16 and C17 panelling and moulded ceiling cornices. Stair hall has C19 dog-leg staircase in the Jacobean style. To right of stair hall is passage way lined with early C17 panelling with fluted uprights and cornice. Roof has double butt purlins, chamfered, large arch-braced middle truss and moulded tie-beam on gable end. House once much larger and had west wing of which foundations have been found, originally E-shaped in plan. (Victoria County History: VOL III: 119; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Berkshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 87).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 489252
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 119
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 87

Legal

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