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Binfield House

A Grade II Listed Building in Binfield, Bracknell Forest

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4341 / 51°26'2"N

Longitude: -0.7933 / 0°47'35"W

OS Eastings: 483979

OS Northings: 171255

OS Grid: SU839712

Mapcode National: GBR D7L.47V

Mapcode Global: VHDX3.66GZ

Plus Code: 9C3XC6M4+JM

Entry Name: Binfield House

Listing Date: 20 December 1972

Last Amended: 14 February 2002

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1390298

English Heritage Legacy ID: 489280

ID on this website: 101390298

Location: Binfield, Bracknell Forest, Berkshire, RG42

County: Bracknell Forest

Civil Parish: Binfield

Built-Up Area: Bracknell

Traditional County: Berkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire

Church of England Parish: Binfield

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description



BINFIELD

SU87SW TERRACE ROAD NORTH
674-1/11/95 (West side (off))
20/12/72 Binfield House
(Formerly Listed as:
WICKS GREEN, Wicks Green
Binfield House)

II

Large house, now home for the elderly. Late C18, altered and
extended C19 with Gothic features, altered late C20.
MATERIALS: Red brick in Flemish bond; hipped tiled roofs of
different heights.
PLAN: Rectangular plan with extensions at rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. Several chimneys, some with
clay pots. Sash windows with glazing bars, those on south-west
front with Gothic glazing bars. Entrance (south-west) front:
windows have gauged brick arches those on first floor are ogee
headed, with keystones. 4 sections; first, left of 3-bays,
projecting. Third bay has Venetian type window on first floor,
with ogee arched centre and round arched sides. Below this,
entrance door of 6 fielded panels in panelled reveal, corniced
head and patterned, rectangular overlight. Prostyle porch has
compound columns and dentil cornice, with panelled soffit.
Second section, taller of 2-bays, with doubled ogee attic
window. Third section, recessed of 3-bays, has pair of glazed
doors under square hoodmould replacing window in middle bay.
Right hand section is large, half-octagonal canted bay with
pair of glazed doors under square hoodmould replacing window
in middle bay.
INTERIOR: entrance hall, dentilled ceiling cornice enriched
with acanthus leaf ornament. Dining room: Adam chimneypiece
with swags, egg and floral enrichment in surround to marble
inset, elaborate cornice enriched with floral decoration and
paterae, console brackets with floral and dart ornament under.
Elaborate doorcase, moulded architrave with bead and reel
anthemion leaf ornament. Ionic pilasters from hall lobby into
dining room. Moulded skirting and dado rail with floral
decoration. Geometrical staircase with stone treads and closed
string. Wreathed handrail with wrought-iron balusters of lyre
pattern. Semicircular dentilled cornice in ceiling above
stairs.


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