Description

SUNNINGDALE

SU96NW SILWOOD ROAD
599-1/15/40 (South West side)
Northcote House, Civil Service
College

II

Large country house, now offices and training college. 1930 by
WE Lord for Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen. Painted render.
Rectangular plan with central staircase hall.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Sash windows with glazing bars with
floating cornices on ground floor and moulded architraves on
first floor. Moulded cornice to parapet.
Entrance (west) front: symmetrical. 11 bays. Slightly
projecting central feature, 3 bays. Giant columns supporting
entablature and pediment of the Ionic order. Doric pilasters
at corners and 4th and 8th bays. Panelled double entrance
doors. Coat of arms in tympanum.
INTERIOR: staircase hall: 2 storeys with quadripartite bossed
roof. One side of ground floor taken up by Imperial staircase
with plain open iron baluster at foot; stone balustrading
pierced with foliated roundels on upper levels. Other rooms
have marble fireplaces and enriched ceiling cornices.

Listing NGR: SU9474067978

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26609388

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)