Brightwell Grove is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Farmhouse.
Brightwell Grove
- WRENN ID
- muffled-pedestal-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BRIGHTWELL BALDWIN SU69SE 7/4 Brightwell Grove
- II
Farmhouse, now house. c.1820-30, remodelled c.1980 by David Hicks. Stuccoed front: rest of coursed chalk rubble with brick quoins and dressings; gabled Welsh slate roof; brick ridge and end stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; symmetrical 3-window range. Wide-span gabled roof with deep eaves encloses one-bay projections with broken pediments in outer bays. C20 door with trellised porch in left bay. 2-light casements in outer bays: central decorative lunette over tripartite sashes and verandah of c.1980. Two-storey range to left of similar materials with 2-window front of blind Gothick windows. Interior: C19 and C20 doors. Room to rear contains fine murals by Rex Whistler, 1937, of grisaille on a blue ground with silver enrichments: originally a room painted for Lady Mountbatten, at Brook House in London, it was removed to Brightwell House and thence Brightwell Grove by David Hicks and Lady Pamela (nee Mountbatten) Hicks. (L. Whistler and R. Fuller: The Work of Rex Whistler, 1960, plate 12 and pp. 9-10).
Listing NGR: SU6562993028
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