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Old Alresford House

A Grade II* Listed Building in Old Alresford, Hampshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.0994 / 51°5'57"N

Longitude: -1.1604 / 1°9'37"W

OS Eastings: 458885

OS Northings: 133674

OS Grid: SU588336

Mapcode National: GBR 976.1F6

Mapcode Global: FRA 86G6.V21

Plus Code: 9C3W3RXQ+PR

Entry Name: Old Alresford House

Listing Date: 16 November 1983

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1157173

English Heritage Legacy ID: 145203

ID on this website: 101157173

Location: Old Alresford, Winchester, Hampshire, SO24

County: Hampshire

District: Winchester

Civil Parish: Old Alresford

Built-Up Area: Old Alresford

Traditional County: Hampshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire

Church of England Parish: Old Alresford St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Winchester

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Description


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OLD ALRESFORD
Old Alresford House

II*
Middle sized country house. 1749-51 by William Jones for Admiral Lord Rodney. Brick with Bath stone dressings and slated roofs. Three storeys and basement, seven bays with slightly projecting centre three bays and single bay flanking wings at either end with single storey on basement service wings either side in front forming courtyard. Stone string courses at ground floor, ground floor cill level and second floor level, to centre five bays, and second floor cornice to flanking bays, tall parapet with coping and bracketed pediment to centre three bays. Flight of nine stone steps to central six- panel door in doorcase with arched radiating fanlight, in 1760s framed with porch of two fluted Tower of the Winds columns and pilasters supporting entablature with bucrania frieze. Either side a closely spaced sash then a widely spaced sash in the outer two bays, and the same arrange holds on the other floors. Ground and first floor have twelve-pane sashes, second floor six-paned, all with rubbed brick arches.

Inside plan form of central saloon, now morning room, flanked by dining and drawing rooms and entrance hall flanked by main and service stairs. In morning room original rococo plaster ceiling, with central panel of eagle discharging thunderbolts and corner medallions of the seasons. Some C18 fireplaces and Regency ceilings. In east service wing Chapel and sitting room decorated in neo-classical trompe l'oeil by Robert Jackson after designs by Annigoni.

House stands at top of park laid out by Richard Woods in 1764 with lawn and ha-ha in front of house and flanking walls of beech and yew framing view down to Alresford Pond.

Listing NGR: SU5876034222

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