Chiltern Court

Chiltern Court is a house built between 1879 and 1880, designed by William Ravenscroft of Reading for George May. It is currently used as offices and has been altered in the 20th century. The building features polychrome grey, yellow, and red brick with moulded brick strings and terracotta panels, topped with a clay plain tile roof that has both hipped and gabled sections. It has tall grey brick stacks with yellow brick shafts and corbelled brick tops.

The plan includes an entrance and stair hall with the principal rooms on the southeast side, and a service wing on the northwest side. The house is designed in the Queen Anne style and is two storeys high with an attic and basement. The northeast front is asymmetrical, featuring a 1:3:2:3:3:3:2 bay arrangement with three projecting wings. The left two wings are gabled (though the gables have been rebuilt), with the left wing containing an integral porch with an elliptical arch, the centre wing having a canted bay on the ground floor, and the right wing being hipped with a wide dormer.

The moulded brick strings are complemented by yellow brick pilasters and terracotta panels in a frieze between the strings on the centre and left wings. The southeast side mirrors this treatment and has a large stack with yellow brick shafts and a moulded brick aedicule adorned with moulded terracotta panels featuring vases of sunflowers. The southwest garden front also follows a similar design, comprising 3:2:3:4:1:3 bays, with the right wing featuring a Dutch gable, the centre being canted and hipped, and the left wing having a large lateral stack with an aedicule. There is a similar aedicule with a vase of sunflowers between the centre and right bays, and a wooden verandah situated between the left and centre wings. The tall, narrow moulded brick windows have key blocks in cambered arches and sashes with margin glazing bars in the top sash. The interior has not been inspected.