Description

WINKFIELD

SU97SW WINKFIELD LANE, Winkfield Plain
674-1/13/283 (South East side)
20/12/72 Winkfield Place

II

Large country house, now educational establishment. Late C18,
altered and extended mid and late C19, altered C20.
MATERIALS: painted render, hipped and gabled slate roofs.
PLAN: rectangular plan with extensions and service wing on
north-west.
EXTERIOR: part 3 storeys, part 2 storeys with attics.
Entrance front, south-east, symmetrical. First build on left
of 5-bays. 3 storeys with plinth, moulded string at first and
second floor sills, moulded cornice and plain parapet. Centre
ridge chimney with corniced head and clay pots. Sash windows
with glazing bars and moulded architraves. 6-panel entrance
door under prostyle Tuscan porch with plain frieze and
pediment. To right of this and set back, 2 later builds. First
of 2 storeys and attics, with plain parapet and 4-bays of sash
windows with glazing bars. Second build, slightly set back
from first of 2 storeys and 4-bays of sash windows without
glazing bars. 2 large ridge chimneys with corniced heads and
clay pots on first section, and rectangular chimney with
similar heads and pots, projecting from front wall, at right
hand end.
INTERIOR: wide, dog-leg staircase in entrance hall with
columns on vase balusters, panelled newel posts moulded
handrail. Decorated plaster soffit to stairs with bead and
reel ornament. Principal rooms have moulded skirtings and dado
rails, 6-panelled doors with moulded architraves with paterae
in corners. Several C18 marble chimneypieces.
The former stable wing which adjoins on the south-west has
been much altered.
(Victoria County History : VOL III: 86).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26314490

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