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: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)