Description

HARTLEBURY CP WARESLEY
SO 86 NW
4/109 St Gilbert's School,
Waresley House (previously
14.3.69 listed as Waresley House)

- II*

Small country house, now school. Late C18 with early and late C20 alterations.
Brick with stone dressings, low pitched hipped stone slate roof. Main front to
south. Three storeys with modillioned cornice to blocking course, sill strings
to ground and first floors; seven bays, wide central three-bay pedimented break
forward with glazed oculus in tympanum; glazing bar sash windows (mostly replaced
by late C20 top hung casements) with stone voussoirs and keystones; central first
floor Venetian window and Diocletion window above it on second floor, where the
windows are of reduced proportions. Segmental-plan Doric portico with four
columns and Doric frieze, approached by steps, glazed door with overlight and
flanking windows. U-plan to rear. Interior: entrance hall mostly reconstructed
c1912, with Ionic columns to main doors.

Listing NGR: SO8439769828

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548685

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Care and Repair