THE WALTERS ARMS

THE WALTERS ARMS, BEARWOOD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391331
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-2005
List Entry Name:: THE WALTERS ARMS
Statutory Address:: THE WALTERS ARMS, BEARWOOD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391331
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-2005
List Entry Name:: THE WALTERS ARMS
Statutory Address 1:: THE WALTERS ARMS, BEARWOOD 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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE WALTERS ARMS, BEARWOOD ROAD

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

District:: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Winnersh
National Grid Reference:: SU 77810 69398

Details

WINNERSH

1921/0/10021 BEARWOOD ROAD Sindlesham The Walters Arms

GV II Public House. C. 1865. Probably Robert Kerr. Red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings and a fishscale slate roof. Two storeys with attic. Jacobean. The windows have stone mullions but contain sashes with diamond-patterned wooden glazing bars. South west [road] front: 3 bays. To left of centre is a projecting, gabled, single-storey porch, with buttresses. At right is a canted, single-storey bay with hipped roof and at left is a projecting gabled wing which has mullioned windows of 3 lights to the ground floor, 2 lights to the first floor and a single light in the attics. The other 2 first floor windows are of 2 lights and that at right has a gablet above with an ashlar-surrounded trefoil. The red brick walling has decorative lattice patterns of diapering and there are lavish ashlar dressings to the windows, gables and porch. The right hand reveal is near-symmetrical at left with 3 bays. The central, sunken bay has 2-light windows to both floors. Projecting at either side of it [but not to the same point] are gabled wings with 3-light windows at ground floor level which diminish to 2 lights at first floor level and single lights to the attic. As elsewhere, there are stone kneelers and coping to the gables. Recessed and extending at right is a single storey service wing (or stables) which may be of later C19 date: this has been altered. Interior: not inspected. The building forms a group with Bearwood College [grade II*] and the Main Lodge to Bear Wood [grade II] [q.v.], and thsu forms part of a good ensemble of related buildings. HISTORY: This building is a good example of a mid-Victorian estate public house in the Jacobean style which adds considerably to the designed texture of the village. Externally it is in fine original condition. The village was built by John Walter III, proprietor of 'The Times', for whom Bearwood House was built by Robert Kerr.

Sources: Mark Girouard, The Victorian Country House, Yale, 1979; Gillian Darley, Villages of Vision, Architectural Press, 1975; Robert Kerr, The Gentleman's House, 1864.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 492876
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Darley, G, Villages of Vision, (1975)
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1971)
Kerr, R, The Gentleman's House, (1864)

Legal

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