Pillar House, Pillar House East, and Attached Stone Piers

Pillar House, Pillar House East, and the attached stone piers are two dwellings located on Harwell High Street, likely built in the mid-19th century. The building features a rendered plinth and painted brick with painted stone quoins, topped by a slate hipped roof. It is designed in the Italianate style and is two stories high with a three-window range. The central entrance has a two-panel door with a decorative fanlight and an architrave surround, flanked by a square flat-roofed porch supported by fluted Doric columns and plain Doric pilasters. The porch is adorned with a triglyph cornice. All window openings have 12-pane unhorned sashes with painted stone architrave surrounds. A moulded stone band runs between the ground and first floors, and there is a bracketed cornice at the eaves. The interiors have not been inspected. Attached to each end of the street front are painted stone piers that form a front courtyard. Historically, this building was the home of artists John Henry Frederick Bacon (1865-1914) and L. Leslie Brooke (1862-1940).