Winkfield Place England, UK

Listed Building Description

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WINKFIELD

SU97SW WINKFIELD LANE, Winkfield Plain 674-1/13/283 (South East side) 20/12/72 Winkfield Place

Large country house, now educational establishment. Late C18, altered and extended mid and late C19, altered C20. MATERIALS: painted render, hipped and gabled slate roofs. PLAN: rectangular plan with extensions and service wing on north-west. EXTERIOR: part 3 storeys, part 2 storeys with attics. Entrance front, south-east, symmetrical. First build on left of 5-bays. 3 storeys with plinth, moulded string at first and second floor sills, moulded cornice and plain parapet. Centre ridge chimney with corniced head and clay pots. Sash windows with glazing bars and moulded architraves. 6-panel entrance door under prostyle Tuscan porch with plain frieze and pediment. To right of this and set back, 2 later builds. First of 2 storeys and attics, with plain parapet and 4-bays of sash windows with glazing bars. Second build, slightly set back from first of 2 storeys and 4-bays of sash windows without glazing bars. 2 large ridge chimneys with corniced heads and clay pots on first section, and rectangular chimney with similar heads and pots, projecting from front wall, at right hand end. INTERIOR: wide, dog-leg staircase in entrance hall with columns on vase balusters, panelled newel posts moulded handrail. Decorated plaster soffit to stairs with bead and reel ornament. Principal rooms have moulded skirtings and dado rails, 6-panelled doors with moulded architraves with paterae in corners. Several C18 marble chimneypieces. The former stable wing which adjoins on the south-west has been much altered. (Victoria County History : VOL III: 86).