Description

SU 99 NE 1/69
5134

CHALFONT ST GILES
NIGHTINGALES LANE
Nos 1 to 4 (consec.) (Pollards
Park House)

II

1903 to the design of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Two storeys and attic. Roughcast walls. Deep
plain tile roofs with stack on west. Wide and shallow leaded light window strips below
eaves. The entrance elevation of the chief wing faces North with lower wings ranged round
a courtyard in front of it, the courtyard entrance from a drive on the north side. Front
elevation of chief wing with three two-light hipped dormers. Two storey gabled centre porch
bay, with a ground floor door with wide lintel extending over single light flanking windows,
and with a two-light transomed and mullioned attic window with dripstone. To right hand on
first floor, a six-light transomed and mullioned first floor window and, to left hand, a
single light window and a wide mullioned window strip without transomes. Ground floor
windows with dripstones. Lower east and west courtyard wings, the west courtyard wing
with a partly bowed front. The courtyard entrance on the north is flanked by battered
walls with end buttresses and shallow pitched plain tile coping. The west courtyard wing
is connected at right angles at its North end with a further higher wing on East-west axis;
there is a brick chimney breast with a tall pair of brick stacks with moulded capping at
the junction between the two wings. North elevation of this East-west wing with deep plain
tile roof with two large hipped dormers each with a four-light transomed and mullioned
window; ground floor elevation with a glazed round arched opening with a four-light window
to each side; a tall brick stack at junction between this wing and further one-storey
wing on west with bowed end.

Listing NGR: SU9907395718

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26417959

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)