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© Brian Steptoe FRPS
IoE Number:
41642
Location:
MONTAGUE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, 31 BROAD STREET (north side)
WOKINGHAM, WOKINGHAM, BERKSHIRE
Photographer:
Brian Steptoe FRPS
Date Photographed:
25 May 2000
Date listed:
12 November 1951
Date of last amendment:
22 March 1993
Grade
II*
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WOKINGHAM BROAD STREET
SU 8168 NW
(North side)
18/10 No 31 (Montague House)
12.11.51
GV II*
the address shall be amended to read "No 31 (MontagueHouse) and
attached garden walls" and the last sentence of the list description
shall be amended to read "The building is set well back from the road
and to the rear has original garden walls to the former C18 terraced
garden."
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WOKINGHAM BROAD STREET
SU 8168 NW
(North side)
18/10 No. 31 (Montague House)
12.11.51
G.V. II*
Large town house, now library and adult education centre. Mid C18, refronted
and extended early C19, altered and extended mid C20. Brick, low pitched
slate roof. Rectangular centre block with projecting flanking wings; former
service wing at rear on left and C20 library rear extension at rear on
right. 3 storeys and brick vaulted cellars. Symmetrical 3 bay front
including projecting wings of one bay each. Stone string at first floor
cill level, wide eaves on pairs of plain brackets. Sash windows with glazing
bars; half glazed central door in arched, panelled reveal, narrow reeded
architrave, and fanlight of circular pattern. The ground floor windows of
wings are arched in a brick recess. Symmetrical 3 storey side wings set
back, with parapets, coped and with a deep stone fascia aligning with
stone string on main section and with one storey projections aligning
with face of projecting wings. The left hand has a blocked window, and
the right half a 6-panel secondary door with a 3-pane rectangular fanlight,
each with a crested keystone. Interior:- contains an Imperial staircase
to first floor, with stick balusters and wreathed handrails. The building
is set well back from the road. B.O.E. (Berkshire) p.309.