Easthampstead Park College and attached terrace with retaining wall and steps is a Grade II listed building in the Bracknell Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1972. Country house, education facility. 10 related planning applications.

Easthampstead Park College and attached terrace with retaining wall and steps

WRENN ID
waiting-spindle-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bracknell Forest
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1972
Type
Country house, education facility
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Easthampstead Park College is a large country house situated within parkland, now used as a training college. It was built in 1860 for the Marquess of Downshire and altered and extended in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of red brick in English bond, with Bath stone dressings, and has low-pitched slate roofs.

The house is designed in a Jacobean style. The north-west front is almost symmetrical, with a six-bay central section featuring a large five-light window in the sixth bay. A projecting three-bay entrance feature has a broad Doric porch with entablature and a shaped pediment bearing a coat of arms. Single bay projections flank the central section, rising above the parapet level. Two wings project forward, each with a shaped gable. The left wing has two bays with a single bay return, while the right wing has a single bay with a large five-light square bay window at the first floor level and a blank return. Single-storey pavilions project from these wings; the left pavilion has two three-bay sections, with the furthermost set back and linking to a taller octagonal room with an ogee roof surmounted by a weathervane. The right pavilion features a single bay, five-light projecting window with a five-bay return of semi-circular headed windows.

The south-east front is symmetrical, with a projecting four-bay central section, and three-bay sections on each side. Single bay projecting wings have shaped gables and square bay windows two storeys in height. Linking the two wings is a stone arcade of ten semicircular arches with tapered columns.

A terrace runs along the south-east front, featuring a brick retaining wall and a pierced parapet similar to that of the house. A flight of ten stone steps leads down to the garden.

Inside, the large staircase hall contains a dog-leg staircase with fluted newels, fluted vase balusters, and a moulded handrail, leading to a galleried landing with similar balusters. A large stained glass window depicts the armorial glass of the Hill and Hillsborough families. A secondary staircase has a leaf and scrolled balustrade with a wreathed and moulded handrail. The Windsor Room, Downshire Room, and Tawnay Room include marble chimneypieces, decorated plaster ceilings, moulded and enriched ceiling cornices and panelled dados. A large 20th-century extension on the left side of the building is of no particular architectural interest.

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