The Courts Of The Morning

SU 67 NW PANGBOURNE SHOOTER'S HILL (south side)

2/31 No.53 (The Courts Of The Morning)

G.V. II

House. Circa 1890, in a free Queen Anne Revival style. Red brick with some gauged window heads, and some tile hanging and planted timbers. Tile roof, hipped to left. Irregular plan. 1 ½ storeys with 2 storeys in centre. Coved eaves cornice, and 3 stacks with oversailing tops. Main elements include: 2 semi dormers to left and one off-centre to right each with cross window, pulvinated frieze with festoons, and pedimented gable. Circular corner turret to right with mullioned and transomed windows on each floor, pulvinated frieze with festoons, and ogee lead cap with finial. Large central gable with central first floor half glazed door flanked by cross windows, and curved ground floor bay with Ionic pilasters, ogee headed plate glass windows, and balcony with timber balustrade above; 2 flanking octagonal turrets with mullioned and transomed windows on each floor, pulvinated frieze with festoons, and ogee lead caps with weathervanes. 2 ground floor casements to left and blocked entrance with plate glass window, ogee head and triangular pediment; 4-panelled door to right. Gabled dormer in left-hand end with mullioned and transomed oriel window, pulvinated frieze with festoons, and pedimented gable; door and window under segmental head below. Central gable originally had large stack in front, and central ground floor curved bay was formerly an open loggia or porch. This is one of a group of houses sometimes known as 'The Seven Deadly Sins'. B.O.E, Berkshire, p.192; Berkshire Architectural Guide, Betjeman and Piper, Murray, 1949, p.110 and p.137.

Listing NGR: SU6263476995