Description

TQ 08 NE DENHAM DENHAM COURT

6/306 Denham Court

23.9.55 II

Early and late C18 country house with C19 alterations. Main garden front late
C18, brown brick with red gauged brick window heads and stone bands and cornice.
Slate roof behind parapet. Three storey centre section 2:3:2 windows, the
centre three window section recessed. Stone band at 2nd floor level and 1st
floor level of centre 3 windows only. Pedimented doorcase with fluted frieze
behind large C19 painted Roman Doric porch. 2 storey wings each side, each
a large 3 window bow. Glazing bar sashes survive in wings and upper floor of
centre. East front is similar, 2 storeys, 1:3:1 windows, the centre 3 windows
a broad shallow bow with tripartite cambered head ground floor sashes and sash
windows above. The ends have blank 1st floor windows and round arched doorway
below with moulded impost and keystone. Overhanging eaves with panelled soffit.
The North front is early C18 red brick now painted, with hipped slate roof.
2 storey and attic, 3 window range of sash windows with gauged brick heads.
Stone cornice. Doorway with gauged brick jambs. C19 painted Roman Doric porch.
To each side C18 and C19 service additions. The West side service range has
a C18 brick West front, 2 storey, 10 window range, with floor band and nogged
brick eaves. Small 1st floor and larger ground floor windows with gauged brick
heads, one ground floor Venetian window. Interior has 2 ground floor early
C18 rooms, one with some panels containing sporting and other paintings, the
other with a marble fireplace and an overdoor with landscape paintings. C19
staircase. RCHM 1, p116; VCH III, 256.

Listing NGR: TQ0508086801

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26417549

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2