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Ascot Place

A Grade II Listed Building in Winkfield, Bracknell Forest

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4337 / 51°26'1"N

Longitude: -0.6862 / 0°41'10"W

OS Eastings: 491421

OS Northings: 171338

OS Grid: SU914713

Mapcode National: GBR F92.1B6

Mapcode Global: VHFTM.2728

Plus Code: 9C3XC8M7+FG

Entry Name: Ascot Place

Listing Date: 20 December 1972

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1390465

English Heritage Legacy ID: 489452

ID on this website: 101390465

Location: Brookside, Bracknell Forest, Berkshire, SL5

County: Bracknell Forest

Civil Parish: Winkfield

Traditional County: Berkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire

Church of England Parish: Winkfield

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description



WINKFIELD

SU97SW PIGEONHOUSE LANE
674-1/13/250 (South side (off))
20/12/72 Ascot Place

GV II

Large country house in parkland with large lake and grotto
(qv). Late C18 by Thomas Sandby, altered early C19 and again
late C19 by A Mitchell. Reconstructed mid C20 by F Scarlett.
MATERIALS: yellow stock brick in Flemish bond. Low pitch
hipped slate roof of double span.
PLAN: square plan with a lower pavilion on each side.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement to centre section, 2 storey
pavilions. 4 large ridge chimneys with moulded stone cornices
and clay pots. Sash windows with glazing bars and gauged brick
arches.
South front symmetrical. Centre section, 7-bays. Projecting
plinth, plain parapet and coping with urns at corners. 3-bay
projecting centre section with dentilled pediment and
prostyle, tetrastyle Doric portico approached by 7 stone steps
with urns on side walls. Half glazed double entrance door. On
left, set back, single storey link with C20 panelled door to
3-bay pavilion, similar in style to centre section without
pediment, but with central cupola with louvred semicircular
openings. On right similar pavilion but with 3 large C20
round-headed windows with radiating glazing bars.
INTERIOR: mostly re-modelled C20. Open well staircase of 4
flights, turned balusters and moulded handrail. Open string
with moulded tread ends returned on soffit, and foliated
spandrels. Staircase hall has dentilled and moulded cornice at
each level, panelled walls and moulded doorcases. Marble
chimneypieces in ante-room, dining room and sitting room.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Berkshire:
Harmondsworth: 1966-: 70; Victoria County History: VOL III:
86).



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