Description

SP 62 SE GRENDON UNDERWOOD EDGCOTT ROAD

1/78 Grendon Hall

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- II

Former house, now offices for Springhill Prison. Dated 1882 on
beam in chapel. By Rev. Randolphe Pigott for his brother Sir Digby
Pigott. Red brick with painted stone quoins, bonded window surrounds
and copings, and moulded brick eaves. Tiled roofs, brick chimneys.
Jacobethan E-plan building with shallow projecting outer bays and porch.
Outer bays have shaped gables and 2-storey canted bay windows with
painted stone mullions and transoms, embattled ornament to parapets,
and diaper panels between storeys. 3-light attic windows with
hoodmoulds and shields above. Intermediate bays each have 2 cross
windows to each storey and 2-light attic dormers with stone crosses
in ogee gables, Central porch has 3-light transomed window with
hoodmould to first floor, 2-light attic window, and door in 4-centred
stone arch with hoodmould. Stone shields above door and in shaped
gable of porch. Chapel to rear of left wing has battlemented
porch with 2-centred arch. Interior: ribbed plaster ceilings;
fireplaces with 4-centred stone arches, that to dining room with wooden
Gothic surround; ground floor doors in Renaissance style with carved
ornament; first floor doors in moulded architraves with panelled and
fluted friezes and dentil cornices; fine C17 staircase, re-sited,
with turned balusters, moulded handrail and urn finials. Altered
chapel has open truss roof, inserted floor, and coffin hatch with re-used
C16 wooden surround.

Listing NGR: SP6822921982

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26452259

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)