Description

SU 46NE SHAW CUM DONNINGTON DONNINGTON

7/35 Donnington Grove
6.6.52
GV II*

House. 1772 and c.1782. John Chute. Partly vitrified grey brick; slate
roof and 2 stacks. Gothick. 3 storey rectangular block with projecting
bays to south-west, south-east and north-east. Service block adjoining
to north-west. Glazing bar sashes with 2 lights and Gothick arched heads;
some replaced by conventional sashes. String courses raised over windows;
between ground and first floors and above third floor. Projecting plinth,
battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles. South-west (entrance) front:
3 bays; with central projecting square bay and first floor oriel window
with battlemented parapet. First floor arched niches in return walls with
C20 figures. Central door and doorcase with Gothick pilasters supporting
open, incurved, triangular pediment. Gothick order porch; one bay to right
and left of door, with Gothick columns and pilasters supporting Gothick
frieze and cornice. 2 storey, one bay addition to left with door and
parapet. South-east front:3 bays with projecting central half-octagonal
bay. French casements centrally and to left. 3 bay, one storey late C18
addition to right with parapet. North-east front: Central projecting square
bay as south-west front. Service block adjoining to north-west:c,1800.Brick
with dentil eaves cornice and slate roof. 2 storey U-shaped block. Square
windows with Gothick heads. Central bellcote on ridge. Interior: Good,
mainly Gothick of 1772. Main rooms include entrance lobby with Colonnaded
aisles and benches, double-height top-lit staircase hall with gallery,
morning room with canted bay on south-east front, Wyatt-like saloon to east
added in late C18, vaulted billiard room in basement and first floor room
to south-west with oriel window and rococo chimney piece. Other good
rooms (see N.M.R.). A very good and complete example of C18 Gothick.
B.O.E.Berkshire.p.128.Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide; Betjeman
and Piper; 1949; pp.73-75. Country Life; Vol.CXXIV; pp.588-591,654-657,
714-717. N.W.R.

Listing NGR: SU4585268959

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Donnington Grove at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5296710

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990