Jane Austen's House Museum Chawton, England
Listed Building Data
Jane Austen's House Museum has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1178917
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 31 July 1963
- Name
- JANE AUSTEN'S HOUSE
- Location
- JANE AUSTEN'S HOUSE, WINCHESTER ROAD
- Parish
- Chawton
- District
- East Hampshire
- County
- Hampshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 70834 37579
- Easting
- 470834.0170
- Northing
- 137579.1640
Description
Jane Austen lived at Chawton Cottage in Hampshire during the happiest and most productive period of her life, from 1809 to 1817. Here she wrote Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Mansfield Park. The charming village house is open to the public as a museum.
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SU 73 NW CHAWTON WINCHESTER ROAD
2/10 Jane Austen's House 31.7.63 G.V. I Home of Jane Austen 1809 to 1817, now a museum. C18. Walls of Flemish bond, with cambered arches to the ground floor, plinth. Hipped tiled roof, brick dentil eaves, 2 flat-roofed dormers with sashes. South east front: once symmetrical, of 2 storeys and attic; 5 above 2 wide windows; the central upper window is now blocked, and below it the former entrance is a window, the openings for wider windows to the ground-floor have been altered, the south side being bricked up as a panel, and the north side made narrower. Sashes in exposed frames. The doorway (north of the centre) has a moulded canopy on carved brackets and a 6-panelled door. The long south-west elevation is similar, of 3 windows, the Flemish bond being mathematical tiles; at the east side is a Gothic sash. At the rear, the L-shaped block has 3 hipped roofs behind the front, one extended to a lower eaves above the staircase. There are 2 inscribed plaques at the front. Interior: much remains of the C18 plain interior (floors, fireplaces, doors, cupboards), with period furnishings, other period features, and exhibition material, related to Jane Austen.
Listing NGR: SU7083737583
