Philips Hill House And Forecourt Walls

Philip's Hill House is a house built in 1907 by Mervyn Macartney. It is constructed of red brick with orange dressings, featuring raised quoins, a stone plinth, and a deep wooden modillion eaves cornice that supports a hipped tile roof. The house is designed in the Caroline style and has two storeys plus an attic, with four hipped dormers. The façade consists of two bays, five central bays, and two more bays, all fitted with glazing bar sash windows in exposed wooden boxes. The ground floor is adorned with a Doric colonnade that includes a triangular pedimented centrepiece and a panelled door, connecting the projecting wings of the house. Surrounding the property are projecting brick forecourt walls to the north, approximately one metre high, which ramp up to panelled quadrant corners and feature ball finials on the corner piers. The building is referenced in the Buildings of England, Berkshire, page 307, and is shown on the Ordnance Survey map as Bussock Wood.