Building record 0418901000 - LATIMER HOUSE

Summary

Medieval to nineteenth century manor house at Latimer House, rebuilt in 1863 in Tudor style. The house was used as an interrogation centre during WWII, then a military training college and is now a hotel.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1124771: LATIMER HOUSE (NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE)

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Type and Period (5)

  • MANOR HOUSE (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1899 AD)
  • COUNTRY HOUSE (Built 1863, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • MILITARY COLLEGE (Modern - 1947 AD to 1983 AD)
  • HOTEL (21st Century - 2000 AD to 2099 AD)
  • PRISONER OF WAR CAMP (Modern - 1939 AD? to 1947 AD)

Description

Seat of Lord Chesham, almost entirely rebuilt (B1).
Illustrations of house in 1786 & 1886. Occasional royal residence. Charles I taken here 1647. Charles II slept in drawing room (B2).
Present house by Blore. Symmetrical red-brick front, mullioned & transomed windows & gables. Date on porch 1863 (B4,B6).
Buildings report (1 file with photographs and sale particulars) held at NMR (B9).
Grade II. 1834-38 by E Blore. Symmetrical red brick mansion of 2 storeys with attics in Tudor style. Ashlar dressings, slate roofs. Moulded octagonal shafts to stacks, crenellated parapets and mullioned and transomed casements. South front with 3 shallow projecting gabled bays in a front of 9 bays. East or entrance front of 5 bays, outer bays gabled and projecting. Central porch with oriel over and 1863 date plaque. Interior with entrance hall and staircase behind, surrounded by a rib-vaulted passage. Other rib-vaulted ceilings. Link range to north courtyard with north and west ranges of 2 storeys and east screen wall, battlemented with at south-east angle of north range clock tower with cupola (B10).

Sources (6)

  • <1>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Joseph Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. p841.
  • <2>SBC2209 Article in serial: B Burgess. 1886. 'LATIMERS OR LATIMER', IN RECS OF BUCKS 6 PP27-47. Vol 6.
  • <4>SBC11706 Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner. 1960. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. p184.
  • <6>SBC11308 Unpublished document: OS RECORD CARD, DEC.1959.
  • <9>SBC23358 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2006. NMR Buildings Reports. BF055433.
  • <10>SBC19433 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p67.

Location

Grid reference SU 99970 98850 (point)
Civil Parish LATIMER, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 27 2024 7:18PM

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