Holme Grange School

WOKINGHAM WITHOUT HOLME GREEN SU 86 NW 10/10 Holme Grange School II Large house, now a private school. 1883 by R. Norman Shaw in the Tudor vernacular style. Brick, upper floor tile hung, tiled roof with several gables and moulded bargeboards. Irregular plan. 2 storeys, several large brick chimneys with offset heads, and some with fluted shafts. Mullion and mullion and transome windows with leaded lights. Entrance front:- central porch with 4-centred gothic arch, a large mullion and transom window above. To the right are 2 oversailing gables. On the left of the porch are 2, 4-light windows breaking eaves with small hipped roofs, and to the left and at right angles to these are 2 gables of unequal pitch. Garden front:- irregular; the main feature is a large projecting chimney stack with ribs and crow stepped, coped sides above eaves level. To the left of it is a 2 storey canted bay window with hipped roof. To right of chimney, and at right angles is a large mullion and transome window, and gables recessed to right of this. There is a gravelled terrace adjoining this front with a brick retaining wall, a centre flight of 6 brick steps and small piers leading down to wide lawns.

Listing NGR: SU8274067200