Estate Office and Adjoining Tower, North-West of Ascot Place is a Grade II listed building in the Bracknell Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1972. Estate office, tower.
Estate Office and Adjoining Tower, North-West of Ascot Place
- WRENN ID
- floating-cobble-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bracknell Forest
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1972
- Type
- Estate office, tower
- OS grid reference
- SU 913 714
- Coordinates
- 51.43428, -0.6878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The estate office and adjoining tower, located north-west of Ascot Place, date from the mid-18th century and have been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. They are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and feature an old tile hipped roof. The building has a rectangular plan with a square tower and single-storey projections on the west side.
The exterior is two storeys high, with a small rendered plinth and brick dentilled eaves. It has 2-light, 18th-century leaded casement windows with segmental brick arched heads. The east front consists of four bays, with 18th-century leaded windows in the first and third bays, and plain wooden planked doors in wide box frames in the second and fourth bays. There is a wide planked door with three glazed panels and long strap hinges in the ground floor second bay. A clock, likely from the 19th century, is positioned on the south-east corner just below the eaves, supported by elaborate iron scrolled brackets and featuring an iron clock face decorated with an acanthus leaf in each corner.
The tower has two stages and a pyramidal roof topped with a small bellcote that has open arched sides and a lead ogee roof with a ball finial. The tower is plain, except for a small plank door in the second stage and a 2-light window in the first stage at ground floor level, both of which have segmental brick arches.
The interiors have not been inspected. A link block adjoins the estate office and tower on the east, while a wall with gates connects the estate office and tower to the stables on the west. Together, the estate office and tower form part of the north side of a stone-paved and cobbled stable yard.
Local climate
Estate Office and Adjoining Tower, North-West of Ascot Place sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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