Taplow Court (Plessey Telecommunications Research)

SU 9082 TAPLOW CLIVEDEN ROAD

16/649 Taplow Court (Plessey Telecommunications - Research)

• II

Dated 1855. The exterior in an early Tudor style, but the interior (with its central glazed hall rising the full height of the house) in a Romanesque style. Red brick; stone dressings; slate roof. Four storeys with 2 stone stringcourses carried round the building as drip moulds over the windows. Central projection with porch. Heavy oak door set in recess with Norman arch. Four windows one above the other. Corner chimneys corbelled out from the 2nd floor. On left, a bay window through 3 storeys; on right, windows with mullions and, on ground and 1st floors, transoms too. To the left and at right angles to the house, the stable court and offices. The back wing extends along the side of the churchyard of the old parish church of St Nicholas and is joined to the house by an octagonal tower. Most of the buildings red brick with slate roofs and 2 storeys high. The range facing the courtyard of the house with 4 gables reach- ing above eaves level and a clock turret over the archway.

Listing NGR: SU9063582216