Building record 0440906000 - SPRING LODGE, CLIVEDEN

Summary

Early nineteenth century Gothic-style spa and tea house built in 1813 with extensions designed by George Devey and built about 1860

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1125050: SPRING LODGE

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Type and Period (5)

  • TEA HOUSE (Built 1813, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • ESTATE COTTAGE (Altered about 1860, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE? (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) JETTIED HOUSE (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • SPA (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. Early C19 extended c1860 by G Devey. South end is early C19 stucco with fish-scale slate roof. Canted 3-sided south end with Gothic tracery to door and windows each side. One similar window on west side. Added to south end c1860 is a broad open timber balcony with ornate half-timbered gable. Attached at north end is roughcast range with fishscale slate roof. A large gable with half-timber and tiles in apex and a mullion and transom window forms crosswing with, to north, a range with half-dormer over a Gothic open loggia. Loggia walls and floors tiled with HS monogramme painted and encaustic tiles. To north again a painted brick and half-timber range of c1860 with plain tile roof. 3 large diagonal stacks on south side. Main front has ground floor bay window with oversailing half-timbered gable above. Oriel window under stepped forward gable apex. The early C19 work is probably the 'Tea Room' built over a mineral spring in 1813 by P F Robinson for the Countess of Orkney (B7).

Sources (8)

  • <1>SBC15712 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 3 PP241,243.
  • <2>SBC5608 Bibliographic reference: GENTS MAGAZINE LIBRARY ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY P287.
  • <3>SBC7745 Bibliographic reference: LIPSCOMB 3 PP296-297.
  • <4>SBC14364 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN PP 854-855.
  • <5>SBC11687 Bibliographic reference: PEVSNER 1960 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE PP98-99 & PL61A.
  • <6>SBC9891 Bibliographic reference: NATIONAL TRUST 1977 PROPERTIES OF....
  • <7>SBC4001 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: DISTRICT OF SOUTH BUCKS. p212.
  • <8>SBC4637 Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 1994. Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England: Buckinghamshire. Part 4.

Location

Grid reference SU 90884 84522 (point)
Civil Parish TAPLOW, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 29 2023 2:25PM

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