FOLIEJON PARK

FOLIEJON PARK, DRIFT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390444
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: FOLIEJON PARK
Statutory Address:: FOLIEJON PARK, DRIFT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390444
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Feb-2002
List Entry Name:: FOLIEJON PARK
Statutory Address 1:: FOLIEJON PARK, DRIFT 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:: FOLIEJON PARK, DRIFT ROAD

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

District:: Bracknell Forest (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Winkfield
National Grid Reference:: SU 90051 74436

Details

WINKFIELD

SU97SW DRIFT ROAD (OFF) 674-1/13/231 (South side) 07/12/66 Foliejohn Park (Formerly Listed as: WINKFIELD STREET Foleijohn Park)

II

Large country house in parkland with lake. Late C18, alterd and extended C19, altered mid C20. MATERIALS: painted render, part slate hipped roof, part flat roof. PLAN: irregular plan with service wing on south-west. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, with string at first floor level, heavy cornice with egg-and-dart enrichment and blocking course. Several chimneys with corniced heads and tall Doulton pots. Sash windows with glazing bars, moulded architraves and bracketed sills, some windows have moulded cornices and pediments. Entrance front, south-west, symmetrical. Centre section of 5-bays, prostyle Ionic porch enclosed C20 with glazed double door under round arch. Projecting wings form courtyard open on south-west, wing on left with splayed end, wing on right with flat end. Both wings have 4 windows to courtyard. INTERIOR: entrance hall with Ionic columns supporting dentilled entablature. Moulded skirting and dado rail. Moulded dentilled ceiling cornice, enriched with egg-and-dart ornament. Dog-leg staircase with barley sugar balusters and moulded handrail. First 10 treads of staircase have been altered to form curved approach to straight flight above. Panelled doorcase at each end of hall with moulded, eared architrave, frieze and pediment, all enriched with foliated, egg-and-dart, and bead and reel ornament. Marble chimneypiece with cast iron grate, engaged colonettes with entablature, egg-and-dart ornament and centre panel in plain frieze carved with Greek male head. Dining room: moulded skirting and dado rail, ceiling cornice similar to hall. Marble chimneypiece with cast iron grate, foliated console brackets, rose corner blocks and frieze, moulded mantelpiece. Sitting room similar but with grey and white mottled chimneypiece and hearth, with cast iron grate. Study and dining room similar with wooden chimneypiece, eared surrounds with black marble inset. A plaque in the hall states that "During the German occupation of Norway HM King Haakow VII resided in this house. March 1942-June 1945".

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Legacy System number:: 489431
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.