Greene House at the National Society for Epilepsy
Greene House at the National Society for Epilepsy, Chesham Lane, Chalfont St Peter
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1408263
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Greene House at the National Society for Epilepsy
- Statutory Address:
- Greene House at the National Society for Epilepsy, Chesham Lane, Chalfont St Peter
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1408263
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Greene House at the National Society for Epilepsy
- Statutory Address 1:
- Greene House at the National Society for Epilepsy, Chesham Lane, Chalfont St Peter
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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:
- Greene House at the National Society for Epilepsy, Chesham Lane, Chalfont St Peter
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chalfont St. Peter
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ0029992596
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 July 2025 to amend the language in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
CHALFONT ST PETER
CHESHAM LANE
Greene House at the National Society for Epilepsy
II
House for male residents. Designed 1897, built 1899 to the designs of Maurice B Adams, Mr Darlington contractor, erected at the expense of Frederick Greene.
Brick with stone banding to ground floor and tile-hanging to first floor set partly within sweeping tiled roof, single-storey wings to sides and rear are part of the original plan.
Greene House is a good example of the distinctive planning found at the Chalfont Centre, with a central two-storey range containing communal living areas on the ground floor and staff accommodation above, with single-storey wings to either side that formerly housed dormitories, now bedsitting rooms, and a service range to the rear, since extended. Upper windows have leaded lights under a pair of rendered gables, other opening casements renewed; those to ground floor centre in round arches set either side engaged columns that frame a further arch this with moulded keystone - containing the part-glazed door. Former sash windows to side elevations replaced by modern casements. A plaque on a pilaster at the side commemorates Frederick Greene. Interiors not inspected as understood to be altered
The former Chalfont colony was founded in 1894 to give a normal, healthy village life to people with epilepsy. It pioneered the concept of a village community for patients with mental conditions, which was widely adopted, firstly for other epilepsy hospitals and in the inter-war period for institutions serving other mental conditions. Greene House is included as the most architectural and least altered of the villas at Chalfont Common, forming a strong group with Milton and Pearman Houses that perfectly demonstrates how the plan of the colony worked.
Source
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, unpublished report NBR no.100291.
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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