Wadley House

LITTLEWORTH WADLEY SU 3196

2/10 Wadley House (formerly listed as Wadley Manor) 10.11.52

• II

1768 Palladian stone house with C16 and C17 rear. Stone tiled roofs. South front built 1768 for Charles Pye, 2-storey with parapet, hipped valley roof and corniced ashlar stacks. Severe 7-window front, coursed rubble with flush ashlar quoins and window surrounds. Moulded stone cornice and simple architrave to centre first floor window with sill panel below. Fine central pedimented Roman Doric doorcase, half-columns and triglyphs in frieze. Round arched doorway with moulded arch and pilaster reveals. 4-window end elevations and rear hipped roof staircase block with cavetto eaves cornice. Modern rear porch. Interior: remodelled c.1910 in neo-Georgian style. Rear range: C16 to C17, T-plan with steep pitched roofs. Renewed brick stacks, 2 at eaves of west side, one on ridge and west wall stack on north cross range. 3-window range to west side, triple mullioned windows with arched heads to ground floor, central 3-light mullioned window above and flanking 2-light windows with hoodmoulds and dogshead label stops to north side hoodmould. Door in south face of cross wing altered to 2-light mullioned window. Crosswing north face partly rebuilt in brick with leaded light casements. 3-light stone mullioned window in east end with arched heads and hoodmould. Small rubble stone rear building with square ventilating turret on hipped roof with 2-light mullioned windows in north and east sides. Wadley was the seat of the Unton family in the C16 and was visited by Queen Elizabeth in 1574 and James I in 1603. VCH Berks.

Listing NGR: SU3112396036