Description

SU 6376 PANGBOURNE SHOOTER'S HILL (south side)

6/1 No.27, Pangbourne English
Centre, No.29 (Hill House),
And No. 31 (Little Court)
7.12.71
- II*

House, now 2 houses, school and Masonic hall. 1898, by Leonard Stokes in
a free neo-Georgian style. Later additions set back to right. Red brick
with plum brick panels in left-hand block, and rendered first floor in
centre with flanking pilaster strips. Tile hanging in gable end to left
and in right-hand blocks, and tile roof. Lead downpipes and rainwater
heads. Irregular skew plan with 2 gables to front. 2 storeys and attic.
Centre block: first floor jettied on shaped brackets with fluted and
moulded bressumer, pulvinated frieze, and deep dentil eaves cornice. 2
segmental arched dormers with 3-light casements in left and right-hand
return fronts, end stack to left with arched panel and rusticated corners,
and stack to right at rear. Central first floor canted bay with cornice,
and 2 flanking 4-light casements with radial fanlight over centre 2 lights
and cornice above. 2 ground floor canted bays with large mullioned and
transomed windows, and 2 central arched half glazed panelled doors with 3-
light overlights and moulded architraves. Arched doorway in right-hand
return front, and ground floor semi circular bay in left-hand return front
with 2-light casement and cornice. Left-hand block: plinth, dentil eaves
cornice, long dormer with four 4-light, casements, and tapered end stack
to left. Right-hand block: 2 first floor glazing bar sashes. 2 ground
floor casements flanking central arched glazed door with cornice above.
Further additions set back to right with tile hung first floor, hipped
roof and 2 stacks. Rear: projecting wing with 2 pilaster strips supporting pedimented gable end with keyed circular window in rendered tympanum.
Canted bay to east. Main entrance with two 2-panelled doors, heavily
moulded stone architrave, segmental stone hood with dentil cornice, and
carved coat of arms in tymmpanum. Segmental ground floor bay to rear of
left-hand block with casement and cornice.
Interior: much painted panelling throughout. Staircase with twisted
balusters, 2 ground floor rooms with delicate plaster ceilings and
classical fireplace surrounds. Left-hand block was formerly a picture
gallery. This house is one of the most inventive of those in the free neo-Georgian practised by many Arts and Crafts architects circa 1900. Formerly
known as Shooter's Hill House. B.0.E, Berkshire, p.192; Berkshire
Architectural Guide, Betjeman and Piper, Murray, 1949, p.137; Edwardian Architecture, Alastair Service, Themes and Hudson, 1977, pp. 170-171.

Listing NGR: SU6310876764

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553088

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