Thatcham House

THATCHAM TURNERS DRIVE SU 56NW 2/9 Thatcham House

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House. 185O-6O. Gothic. Red brick with some black diapering; stone window dressings, balustrades, bands, plinth and parapet. Plain tiled roofs with ridge cresting, and parapetted gables with kneelers and finials. Various odd chimneys. Turret off-centre to right with embattled stone parapet and sides with trefoiled window openings. 2 storeys, with attic to right. 2 blocks. Left of centre: 2 ground floor square bay windows with unpierced quatrefoil parapet and 1O-light stone mullioned and transomed windows. 3 first floor windows, large arches above those to right and left with plain and fish scaled tile hanging, 6-light mullioned and transomed wooden casements with small slit openings in gables above. Cross window in centre with gable above hiding hipped roof behind. Central door with pointed arch, moulded surround, hood mould and carved stops, in square head, with quatrefoils in spandrels. Right of centre: 2 storey bay window to left with quatrefoil parapet. 2 gabled dormers with decorated barge boards; embattled wall to right. Conservatory to left of wood and glass with 3 parallel ranges, that in centre taller; central arched doorway with Gothic glazing, and plain geometrical tracery in gable above. Rear: canted stone bay window with cusped tracery, and traceried panels in embattled parapet. Ogee arched doorway to left in entrance porch with embattled parapet.B.O.E.Berkshire.p.240.

Listing NGR: SU5242967024