Description

SU 47SE CHIEVELEY

4/27 Prior's Court School
6.4.67 (formerly listed
GV 11* as Priors Court)

House, now school. Late C18. Red brick with old tile roof and 4 stacks.
Moulded brick cornice, parapet with stone coping, and 3 central
triangular pedimented dormers. 2 storeys and attic. 1:3:1 bays;
glazing bar sashes. First and fifth bays projecting with centre part
broken forward and carried up above parapet to thermal windows and
triangular pediments in attic. Ground floor windows of wings in arched
recesses. Projecting central porch with 4 possibly re-used Corinthian
stone columns and entablature. Door with fanlight and pilasters flanked
by narrow arched windows. 2 storey, 8 bay addition of c.1900 to left in
similar style. East front: recessed central bay with arched first floor
window and wrought iron balcony. Canted bays to left and right rising to
parapet. Central porch with 4 Greek Doric columns and panelled door.
North front: 2:1:1:1:2 bays. Roof hipped forward over 2 projecting bays
to left and right. Central bay projecting with triangular pediment and
blank circular opening in tympanum. Triple ogee headed Gothick first
floor windows extending to ground level. Interior: front hall has heavily
moulded panelled ceiling and frieze. Southern door with pilasters and
semi-circular fanlight with scrolled keystone. Door to north with architrave,
entablature and broken triangular pediment. Other good doorcases to east and
west. Fireplace with heavily moulded overmantel. Ground floor room to south
with shafted triple ogee headed Gothick windows. Good fireplaces in first floor
rooms. B.O.E.Berkshire p.114.

Listing NGR: SU4883473677

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553333

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