West Wing, Middle House, Lyle House, East Wing and Beeching Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.

West Wing, Middle House, Lyle House, East Wing and Beeching Cottage

WRENN ID
high-wattle-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1984
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

This is a house, now divided into houses and flats, likely dating to circa 1897 and designed by W. Ravenscroft. It is constructed of plum brick with Bath stone dressings, and has a tile roof with red brick stacks. The building follows a T-plan and has two storeys plus an attic. Architectural details include a plinth, string courses, parapeted gables, and eleven stacks with pilaster shafting. The windows are mullioned and transomed, with casements and sashes.

The north-west front features a stack corbelled from the first floor, bearing the inscription “FT XIV.VIII.MDCCCXCV”. Two hipped dormers flank the stack to the left, each with a gablet and two-light casement. Below are two leaded windows on the first floor, and two six-light leaded windows on the ground floor. The right-hand block slightly projects with an asymmetrical gable to the left, and a stack to the right. An attic window is located in the gable. The first floor has a cross window to the left and two smaller windows to the right, while the ground floor has two small windows and a doorway with a moulded four-centred arch, carved spandrels, a hoodmould, and two six-panelled doors.

The left-hand return front has a hipped dormer with a gablet and three-light casement. A large ten-light leaded window is positioned to the right on the first floor, with two smaller windows to the left. A four-centred arched doorway is located below, accompanied by two small windows to the left. A projecting block features two attached gabled dormers with planted timbers and three-light casements. The central first floor window is a three-light window, flanked by two two-light windows. The ground floor has two cross windows flanking a central doorway with a moulded four-centred arch, carved spandrels, a hoodmould, and a panelled door.

The garden front is a long, asymmetrical composition, including twin gables to the left with two-storey canted bays, a centrally set-back gable with an octagonal corner turret, and a lower wing to the right with a gable and a canted bay.

A timber-framed conservatory is attached to the south-west, featuring a brick plinth, segmental arched lights, and circular glazed panels in the gable ends. A short glazed linking corridor connects the conservatory to the main house.

Beeching Cottage is attached to the main house by a tiled-roofed passageway. It is a single-storey building with attics, constructed of plum brick, now painted, and has a tiled roof. The cottage has two fixed casements with glazing bars only, and a simple door case to the right.

The interior is largely complete, including a panelled hall with a fireplace and arcaded overmantel, doorcases, and a panelled ceiling, as well as a staircase hall with a grand staircase. The property was formerly known as Maidenhatch House.

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