Building record 0152401000 - HALL BARN

Summary

Seventeenth century country house, built after 1651 and known as Hall Barn.

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  • Listed Building (II*) 1160418: HALL BARN (DBC1592)

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Type and Period (1)

  • COUNTRY HOUSE (Built after 1651, 17th Century - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Description

Stands in large park. 3 storeys & attic. c.1675, rectangular block facing N. In early C18 wing added on S extending E & offices on W side. In 1883 addition built in NE angle (B2).
Built for Edmund Waller, (poet). Full description (B4-5).
Located at NGR (B6).
Grade II+. Built for Edmund Waller, the poet, some time after 1651. Brick; stone dressings; stone slate hipped roof with lantern. Three storeys plus attic; 5 bays with coupled pilasters at the angles and between the windows. Ionic on the ground floor, Corinthian on the first and Composite on the second. The centre bay emphasized by detached columns carrying the pediments, segmental on the first floor and triangular on the second. The ground floor with a 3-bay porte-cochere by Devey of c.1865. In the roof 3 dormers with segmental pediments. To the right the former stables. Brick; slate roof with bell-turret. Two storeys (B3).
During the World War II part of the Wallace Collection was stored at Hall Barn (from 1939), along with the Royal Armouries collection, the painted ceiling from the Banqueting House (between January 1941 and July 1945), and part of the Society of Antiquaries collection (from 1941)(B13).

Sources (6)

  • <2>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. pp41-42.
  • <3>SBC4001 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: DISTRICT OF SOUTH BUCKS. p15.
  • <4>SBC26953 Bibliographic reference: George Lipscomb. 1847. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (Volume 3). Volume 3. p190.
  • <5>SBC11706 Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner. 1960. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. pp150-152;Plates 40A.
  • <6>SBC10422 Map: OS 1961 6 INCH MAP.
  • <13>SBC26878 Bibliographic reference: Caroline Shenton. 2021. National Treasures: Saving the Nation's Art in World War II. pp90-92,180,189-191,243,255.

Location

Grid reference SU 94355 89229 (point)
Civil Parish BEACONSFIELD, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Nov 8 2024 12:03PM

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