Description

EAST ILSLEY BROAD STREET
SU 48 SE
(South side)
3/29
Kennet House
25.10.51 (Formerly listed as Kennett
G.V. House and Stable block)
II*

House. Early C18 with C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick; hipped
tiled roof. Long rectangular plan running east/west- with 3 gabled
wings at right angles to south. 2 storeys and attic; plinth, moulded
band at first floor, rubbed brick flat arches to windows, bracketed
timber eaves cornice, central pedimented dormer on north, flanking
chimneys. North Elevation:- 8 glazing bar sashes with exposed box
frames, the 6 to the left in the original build and the 2 to the right
in a slightly later addition; 3 elaborate cast lead rainwater heads,
3 insurance plaques between 3rd and 4th sashes from left; 8 panel
door in 3rd bay from left with raised and fielded bolection moulded
panels in moulded architrave supporting frieze and keyblock flanked by
carved scroll brackets under cornice curved back in centre to support shell
pediment hood with cupid sitting on scroll at base of shell, 3 stone steps
to door. Interior:- C18 bolection moulded panelling to hall, landing, ground
and first floor rooms on east including bolection fire and door surrounds with
matching doors; open well stair with moulded handrail ramping up to square
newels and twisted balusters; rooms to west have dado panelling and plaster
cornice. B.O.E. Berkshire p.135.

Listing NGR: SU4930881032

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553395

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey