Building record 1309900000 - TURVILLE GRANGE, TURVILLE HEATH

Summary

Mid to late eighteenth century house with nineteenth and twentieth century alterations and extensions.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1160852: TURVILLE GRANGE (DBC5622)

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Type and Period (2)

  • HOUSE (Altered about 1890, 18th Century to Modern - 1700 AD to 1999 AD)
  • (Alternate Type) DOUBLE PILE HOUSE (18th Century - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

Grade II. House. Mid-late C18 much refurbished, altered and extended c.1890 for Stephen Smith, further extensions C20. Front is of vitreous header brick with red brick dressings, flint plinth and dentilled cornice. Remainder brick. Old tile roofs, flanking brick chimneys with dentil caps. Original double pile house with c.1890 parallel rear wing. 2 storeys and attic, 5 bays. 3-pane sash windows with gauged heads. 3 dormers of c.1890 with leaded casements and moulded pediments. Central 6-panelled door with rectangular fanlight, panelled reveals, bolection surround and heavy segmental pediment on cut scroll brackets, all probably c.1890. Flanking single storey bays of c.1890, canted to sides, with moulded cornices and parapets, that to right formerly a Tuscan loggia with stone columns and cornice. Sides are triple gabled, the left side with symmetrical canted bays and colonnade between. C20 wings to rear. Interior remodelled, with re-sited C18 and early C19 fireplaces, and C18 turned baluster stair (B1).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC3985 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1986. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKS; WYCOMBE: PARISHES OF FAWLEY &C. p72.
  • <2>SBC23285 Bibliographic reference: Wycombe District Council. 1999. Turville Heath Conservation Area Character Survey.

Location

Grid reference SU 74685 91051 (point)
Civil Parish TURVILLE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Aug 9 2021 4:06PM

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