OAK GROVE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY

OAK GROVE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, LONDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390375
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1972
List Entry Name:: OAK GROVE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY
Statutory Address:: OAK GROVE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390375
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Feb-2002
List Entry Name:: OAK GROVE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY
Statutory Address 1:: OAK GROVE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, LONDON 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:: OAK GROVE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, LONDON ROAD

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

District:: Bracknell Forest (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sandhurst
National Grid Reference:: SU 85602 60728

Details

SANDHURST

SU86SE LONDON ROAD 674-1/18/170 (North West side) 20/12/72 Oak Grove House and attached front walls, Royal Military Academy (Formerly Listed as: SANDHURST Oak Grove House to west-south-west of main building)

GV II

Officer's house. Dated 1810, by John Sanders, architect, extended 1950. MATERIALS: Painted render with ridge and front lateral stacks and slate hipped roof. PLAN: double depth plan. STYLE: late Georgian style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement, 1:3-window range. Originally square plan with matching 3-window sides, moulded first floor cill band, cornice and parapet, now with side one window C20 extension. Entrance front has steps, with wrought iron rail to right and ramped, coped wall to left, up to right hand porch with moulded coping, narrow flat headed doorway with overlight and 6-panel door, and iron overthrow lantern, to left shallow single storey section projects with 3 narrow lights. Ground floor windows have architraves with cornices, first floor windows have eared architraves, to recessed 6/6-pane sashes, blind window above the porch, with 2 reeded lead hoppers to left inscribed G III R/1810. INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having a dogleg stair from an entrance lobby. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached basement area wall extends along the right hand return, with corner moulded cast iron lamp base. HISTORY: with Lake House (qv), one of a pair of matching lodges to the Old College (qv), for the Paymaster at the college, and part of a fine group. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: Oakgrove House: 1950-: ALD/248; Country Life: Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst: London: 1969-: 1662; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Berkshire: 1966-: 211).

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 489358
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966)
Shepperd, A , Sandhurst the Royal Military Academy, (1980)

Legal

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