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Latitude: 51.4416 / 51°26'29"N
Longitude: -0.7357 / 0°44'8"W
OS Eastings: 487968
OS Northings: 172157
OS Grid: SU879721
Mapcode National: GBR D7H.DV6
Mapcode Global: VHDX4.61F6
Plus Code: 9C3XC7R7+JP
Entry Name: Rectory House
Listing Date: 7 December 1966
Last Amended: 14 February 2002
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390397
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489384
ID on this website: 101390397
Location: Warfield, Bracknell Forest, Berkshire, RG42
County: Bracknell Forest
Civil Parish: Warfield
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Warfield
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: House
SU87 SE
674-1/12/183
WARFIELD
CHURCH LANE (south side)
Rectory House
07/12/66
II
Formerly known as: Rectory House. Rectory to Church of St Michael (qv) now private house. Date of 1820 on rainwater hopper heads, extended 1906.
MATERIALS: Bath stone ashlar, low-pitch slate roof behind parapets. Extension has old tile pyramidal roof and is rendered.
PLAN: square plan with extension on south.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and basement. Two large central chimneys with several clay pots. Four flat pilasters on each front, resting on basement plinth, support moulded cornice and parapet, and continue through parapet to end in semi-circular finials with palmette decorate. Sash windows with glazing bars, flat stone surround, moulded cornices to ground floor windows. Symmetrical entrance front to west. Three-bay windows.
First floor centre window blocked and filled with arms of previous owner. Eight steps to entrance door of six fielded panels, with patterned fanlight well set back behind early C20 brown stone frontispiece, of round arch on paired columnettes, with embellishments.
INTERIOR: late C18 marble chimneypieces in sitting room and library, with foliage carving. Dog-leg staircase with stick balusters, wreathed handrail, and closed string with carved tread ends.
HISTORY: Sir William James Herschel, inventor of the system of identification by finger prints, lived in the house, in the late C19.
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