Bulstrode Park (Worldwide Evangelization Crusade Headquarters) is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1985. House. 7 related planning applications.
Bulstrode Park (Worldwide Evangelization Crusade Headquarters)
- WRENN ID
- turning-lead-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bulstrode Park, originally built between 1676 and 1685 by Judge Jeffries, is now the headquarters of the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade. The current house was constructed by Benjamin Ferrey from 1860 to 1862 for the 12th Duke of Somerset. It features red brick with some decorative diaperwork and stone dressings, topped with a slate roof. The building has two and three storeys.
The entrance facade on the north side includes a battlemented tower porch with a tall oriel window and a pyramidal roof, flanked by gabled bays—three on the left and two on the right. To the left of the extreme left gable, there is a two-storey, four-bay block with a pyramidal capped polygonal turret in the corner. Further left is another gabled, one-storey, two-bay block. The west side of the Outer Court is accessed through a Gothic arch featuring a ducal crest in the gable, flanked by railings. The other three sides of this court have an arcade supported by equal early English piers with shaft rings. The east side's centre has a block with two gables and a small turret between them, while a little pointed polygonal turret is against the roof of the north side. The south side of the Outer Court has a central low gabled block with a small pointed polygonal turret and, to the right, a clock turret with a bell above. This block provides access to the Inner Court, which is less ornate but retains some features of the earlier building.
The garden facade includes a polygonal pointed capped turret on the left, followed by seven bays, with the first, fourth, and seventh bays being gabled. At ground level, there is a six-bay veranda supported by coupled spirally-fluted columns, each with two shaft rings. The interiors have been significantly remodeled in a neo-Georgian style by F.C. Eden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but the principal wooden staircase and the vaulted, glazed hall with its iron railings and clusters of four twisted columns with east-east capitals and shaft rings remain original.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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