Childe Court The Maltings The Morrell Room The Morrell Room Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Houses, village hall. 3 related planning applications.
Childe Court The Maltings The Morrell Room The Morrell Room Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-stair-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- Houses, village hall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Childe Court, The Maltings, The Morrell Room, and The Morrell Room Cottage comprise three houses and a village hall, originally a maltings, dating back to the late 17th century, with 18th-century fabric and additions and alterations made in 1898 by W. Ravenscroft in a Domestic Revival style.
Childe Court, the southern block, presents a south front of grey brick with red dressings. Notable features include gauged window heads, a wooden dentil eaves cornice to the first floor, which is tile hung, and a jettied section to the right supported by shaped brackets. A wooden modillion eaves cornice tops the old tile roof, alongside end stacks. Sprocketted eaves extend in front of two large, tile-hung, gabled dormers to the right, with louvred openings, and cover the tile-hung gable ends to the left and right. The building is two storeys and an attic. It has two first-floor windows with six diamond-leaded lights and a transom, and a diamond-leaded cross window to the left. The ground floor features two diamond-leaded canted bays with dentil cornices and blind boxes, along with a diamond-leaded cross window to the left. Two leaded casements are present on each floor within the gable end to the west. An entrance is located at the rear.
The northern block displays a west front constructed of flint with brick dressings, featuring a jettied timber frame on the first floor with herringbone brick nogging. Two tile-hung gables, each with a louvred opening, are visible, while a central stack rises from the valley to the rear. The building is two storeys and an attic. A large first-floor window with eight diamond-leaded lights and a transom is on the right, alongside a three-light leaded casement to the left, flanked by two smaller leaded casements. The ground floor includes a leaded cross window off-centre to the left, with a small leaded casement to the right, and a half-glazed door on the left.
The Maltings itself displays a west front of flint with brick dressings and a timber-framed second floor with herringbone brick nogging. A wooden modillion eaves cornice sits above a pyramidial tile roof topped with a lead ball finial. It also includes hipped, louvred dormers on each face and a large stack to the rear. It has two leaded cross windows on both the first and second floors, and a three-light ground floor leaded casement.
The Morrell Room, on the west front, is constructed of flint and brick with a slate roof and a central, louvred cupola with a dentil cornice, dome, and finial, complete with a weathervane. It is a single storey high. It has six two-light leaded casements beneath the eaves, two 20th-century half-glazed doors to the right, and two further 20th-century half-glazed doors to the left, positioned under the third window from the left.
The Morrell Room Lodge, on the west front, has a ground floor of flint with brick dressings and a patterned tile-hung, jettied first floor. A moulded bressumer supports the first floor, while a wooden modillion eaves cornice, with sprocketted eaves extending in front of a tile-hung gable end with a louvred opening, tops the prominent stack to the right. A four-light leaded casement is on the first floor, two small ground-floor casements are to the left, and a half-glazed door with a leaded overlight is on the right.
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