WICK HILL HOUSE

WICK HILL HOUSE, KENILWORTH AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391324
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-2004
List Entry Name:: WICK HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WICK HILL HOUSE, KENILWORTH AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391324
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-2004
List Entry Name:: WICK HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WICK HILL HOUSE, KENILWORTH AVENUE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WICK HILL HOUSE, KENILWORTH AVENUE

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

District:: Bracknell Forest (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bracknell
National Grid Reference:: SU 87485 69826

Details

BRACKNELL

674-1/0/10002 KENILWORTH AVENUE Wick Hill Wick Hill House

II Detached house. 1835. Architect unknown. Red brick with vitrified headers, wooden eaves, roof not visible. Three storeys. EXTERIOR: Five bay front with a projecting central bay and side pilasters, fronted by a tall Doric pedimented porch. Lower side extension to left. Ground floor windows (now plate glass sashes) set within moulded surrounds with cills on console brackets above; blind box covers in situ to left-hand windows. First floor windows are 6/6 pane sashes within surrounds, the central one with moulded surround as per the ground floor ones, with continuous cills to each pair. The Second floor windows are 3/6 pane sashes, set within surrounds. Deep eaves with paired brackets set between the window bays. Rear elevation has a verandah with upswept roof carried on paired iron columns, tall French windows and steps leading down to the lawn. INTERIOR: contains a winding open string staircase with mahogany handrail and stick balusters, panelled doors and shutters, plasterwork, etc. It was subdivided into 7 flats in 1986. HISTORY: This is a handsome house in the Late Georgian manner which, in its eaves cornice, window surrounds and porch shows the influence of the Italianate style. The date of 1835 is derived from a plaque on the rear wall. The first occupant was a Mr Francis Sewell; in 1877 it passed to St George Littledale, a late Victorian explorer. Included as a substantially intact pre-1840 house of substance and elegance.

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

Legacy System number:: 490571
Legacy System:: LBS

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