Description

BINFIELD

SU87SE FOREST ROAD
674-1/12/65 (South side (off))
07/12/66 Binfield Manor
(Formerly Listed as:
FOREST ROAD
(South side)
Binfield Manor House)

GV II

Large house in parkland with lake. Early C18 centre with early
C19 extensions, altered mid and late C20.
MATERIALS: Part painted brick but mostly painted render. Low
pitched slate roofs.
PLAN: rectangular plan with cross-wing extension on each end
and service extension to east.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Most chimneys have been removed, only 3
remain. Plinth, dentilled, moulded cornice and parapet. Sash
windows with glazing bars. Entrance (north) front: pedimented
centre section of 5 bays, segmental pediments over 2 outer
windows on grround floor. Centre 3-bays slightly projecting
with pedimented Doric porch, triglyph frieze, mutule cornice
and pediment. 3-bay projecting cross-wings on each side of
centre section with single bay returns. Pediments over ground
floor windows. Pediments and porch are late C20. South
(garden) front: 4 canted bays, each with 3 windows, recessed
sections between of 2, 1 and 1 bays.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
House is picturesquely situated at end of avenue of beech
trees.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Berkshire:
Harmondsworth: 1966-: 87).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669672

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)