HAMSTEAD MARSHALL
listed and protected sites
Most of the following information is taken from West Berkshire Council's register of listed buildings, which appears to have been compiled before the redevelopment of the Stable Yard into Craven Hill. More recent information has therefore been added in brackets.
Grade I Gate-piers (of the 17th-century mansion site):
1. 30m south of the east end of St Mary's Church: early 18th century.
2. 204 metres east of entrance to Home Farm (Parterre) in Craven Hill, early 18th-century.
3. 210 metres due south of St Mary's Church tower: late 17th century.
4. 103 metres south of east end of St Mary's Church: early 18th century.
5. 3 pairs of gate-piers and walks around the gardens and terrace at Home Farm (i.e. Parterre and Craven House.
gate-piers
Grade II* 1. gate-piers and 2 metres of walls to east and west of piers on edge of Park Lane (also called Milkhouse Road and Irish Hill Road), 62 metres west of entrance to churchyard.
2. St Mary's Church.
St Mary's Church
In 1996 a geophysical survey of the above sites was carried out by English Heritage and published as Ancient Monuments Laboratory report no 2/97.
Grade II 1. Edgecombe Nursing Home/Hamstead Lodge: c1720, enlarged 19th century, rectangular plan and L-shaped extension, two storeys and attics, large semi-circular portico and iron columns.
2. garden wall and garden rooms 4 metres south-west of Hamstead Lodge, and garden house. 5. Gully and Clareville Cottages: late 16th, 17th, 19th and 20th centuries.
6. La Salle and Lamellion (now all called Lamellion): late 16th-century with 19th and 20th-century extensions.
7. Peartree Cottage: 17th and 20th centuries.
8. Pegadeb Cottage (The Old Post Office): 16th, 17th and 19th centuries.
9. Holtwood Farmhouse: 16th, 17th, 18th and 20th centuries.
10. Dreweatt's bridge and lock: late 18th and 20th centuries. Rennie's standard design.
11. Pillbox type FW3/28: part of Southern Command's GHQ Line Blue for defence of UK. 65m east of Dreweatt's Lock.
12. Hamstead Holt Farmhouse: late 18th century.
13. Park Lane east barn (West Barn Bothy) 10 metres south of Keeper's Cottage (no.50) at Home Farm (Parterre).
14. range of farm buildings including Keeper's Cottage (no.50) at Home Farm (Parterre): 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
15. Morewood House: 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th centuries, granary and dovecote.
16. stable to Ivy House/Morewood: early 18th century.
17. Mill House: early 19th-century.
18. Hamstead Bridge and lock: late 18th and 20th century.
Hamstead Mill
Garden of Special Historic Interest 2.5ha of walled kitchen gardens (now within grounds of Craven House). Listed on York University's database of sites registered with English Heritage.
Scheduled Ancient Monuments three motte-and-bailey castle mounds:
1) and 2) in the garden of North Lodge (Berkshire 19010)
3) in the north of Hamstead Park (Berkshire 19011)
Hamstead Park pale (Berkshire 19012)
North Lodge castle mound
Sites of Special Scientific Interest Links to English Heritage descriptions:
1) Hamstead Marshall pit in the quarry field, protected for geological reasons
2) Irish Hill Copse - ancient coppiced woodland
3) Redhill Wood - ancient woodland exhibiting a wide range of stand types and with particularly fine examples of birch-ash-lime, pedunculate oak-ash-hazel and valley-alder woodland
4) River Kennet
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3 June 2008
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