Somerton House
SOMERTON HOUSE, FOREST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390450
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Somerton House
- Statutory Address:
- SOMERTON HOUSE, FOREST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390450
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Somerton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOMERTON HOUSE, FOREST 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:
- SOMERTON HOUSE, FOREST 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 90150 71054
Details
WINKFIELD
SU97SW FOREST ROAD
674-1/13/238 (North side)
20/12/72 Somerton House
II
Large house. Early C18, re-fronted and extended early C19.
MATERIALS: painted render, slate, hipped roof.
PLAN: former central staircase plan of 3 bays now extended on
north and east.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics, with plinth, cornice and
parapet. 3 flat roof dormers. 3 chimneys with corniced heads
and clay pots. Sash windows with glazing bars, recessed in
plain reveals. Entrance front, south, 3-bay window, slightly
projecting section of early house with prostyle Doric porch in
centre, with half-glazed door. 2-bay extension on right. C20
wooden conservatory on left of 6-bays with hipped, glazed
roof.
INTERIOR: dog-leg staircase with wreathed handrail and bobbin
balusters. Decorative plaster ceiling over staircase and
landing, enriched with guilloche ornament. C18 marble
chimneypieces in dining room, sitting room and study.
Chimneypiece in the dining room has console brackets to
moulded cornice, frieze with black marble panels flanking
carved centre panel. Chimneypiece in sitting room has beaded
surround and frieze with paterae corner blocks and plain
mantel shelf. Chimneypiece in study has moulded mantel shelf
and frieze carved with scroll and floral decoration, supported
by 2 pilasters with female heads.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489437
- 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.
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