Wade Court (Wade Tower East Wing And West Wing). is a Grade II listed building in the Havant local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 1997. Country house.
Wade Court (Wade Tower East Wing And West Wing).
- WRENN ID
- heavy-slate-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Havant
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 1997
- Type
- Country house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wade Court, originally a country house and now divided into three dwellings, dates to the early 18th century, with significant extensions in the late 19th century and alterations in the mid-20th century. The construction is primarily red brick with stone dressings, featuring a front wall of vitrified brick in header bond and a coursed stone rubble tower. The roof is tiled with clay, with hipped and gable ends, and includes brick axial and lateral stacks.
The original house, located at the west end, was initially five bays and was extended eastwards in the late 19th century by seven bays. This extension combined Queen Anne and Jacobean styles, with the addition of a large, Medieval-style tower towards the east end. A large porch was built on the front of the original house, bay windows were added to the ground floor, and a wing was constructed at the rear. The house was subsequently subdivided into three dwellings in the mid-20th century.
The north front is approximately 12 bays in length. The original section on the right features a vitrified brick façade in header bond with a plat band, incorporating cambered-arch 12-pane sashes with moulded cills. The ground-floor windows of this section were replaced in the late 19th century with stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds, and a bay window was added on the right. A large, late 19th-century porch with a Tudor arch and stone mullioned windows is centrally located. The three bays at the centre also date to the late 19th century, with 12-pane sashes on the first floor, stone string and hoodmoulds, and stone mullioned windows on the ground floor. Two bays to the left feature stone windows, and on the extreme left is a large stone tower with a polygonal corner turret, battlements, a cornice with fleurons, diagonal buttresses, and stone Gothic windows. The rear (south) elevation features a late 19th-century gable-ended wing and stone mullion windows on the left. The centre section is raised and has large bowed windows, while the right side is adjoined by a brick granary with blind arcading and a half-hipped roof.
The interior of the West Wing includes Victorian features such as a panelled hall with a large staircase and a landing gallery balustrade, moulded plaster rib ceilings, a stone wall with a Tudor arch fireplace and ribbed canopy, a drawing room, a study (both panelled with rib ceilings and stone fireplaces with Delft tiles), and a dining room with a Gothick chimneypiece. A Gothic arcaded screen on the landing leads to the attic stairs. The East Wing (the central section) retains panelling and a chimneypiece with Delft tiles.
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