Thames Bridge House, Henley on Thames: Listed Buildings Location BIRD PLACE Overview Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1319073 Date first listed: 23-Dec-1983 Statutory Address: BIRD PLACE Map © Crown Copyright and database right 2020. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900. © British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2020. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006. Use of this data is subject to Terms and Conditions . The above map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. For a copy of the full scale map, please see the attached PDF - 1319073.pdf The PDF will be generated from our live systems and may take a few minutes to download depending on how busy our servers are. We apologise for this delay. This copy shows the entry on 23-Jul-2020 at 10:07:02. Location Statutory Address: BIRD PLACE The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. District: Wokingham (Unitary Authority) Parish: Remenham National Grid Reference: SU 76470 82584 Details REMENHAM SU 78 SE 1/9 Bird Place II Large house. C18. Brick, string at first floor level, plain parapet with coping, old tile roof with coped gable end to right, hip to le, pedimented dormers with sash windows, symmetrical chimneys, 2 storeys attic and basement. North front : 5 bays sash windows with glazing bars, stone cills and architrave frames on lower floors, modern half glazed central door with moulded rusticated architrave and voussoir head under Doric porch of 2 pilasters, columns and entablature with triglyph frieze and modillioned cornice, approached by flight of stone steps. To the right hand is a brick service wing of no special interest which continues to west in a late C17 timber framed house which is listed separately under Bird Place Cottage. Interior: contains staircase with turned balusters and square newels with moulded panels, panelling in rooms on ground and first floors. Listing NGR: SU7647082584 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 41281 Legacy System: LBS Legal This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest. End of oicial listing © Historic England 2020 BIRD PLACE COTTAGE Overview Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1154558 Date first listed: 26-Jan-1967 Statutory Address: BIRD PLACE COTTAGE Map © Crown Copyright and database right 2020. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900. © British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2020. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006. Use of this data is subject to Terms and Conditions . The above map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. For a copy of the full scale map, please see the attached PDF - 1154558.pdf The PDF will be generated from our live systems and may take a few minutes to download depending on how busy our servers are. We apologise for this delay. This copy shows the entry on 23-Jul-2020 at 10:06:17. Location Statutory Address: BIRD PLACE COTTAGE The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. District: Wokingham (Unitary Authority) Parish: Remenham National Grid Reference: SU 76443 82579 Details REMENHAM SU 78 SE 1/8 Bird Place Cottage 26.1.67 II Cottage. Late C17, much altered, timber framed painted brick infil, tile roof gabled, 5 framed bays 2 storeys. North front:2 bays of timber frame to ground level, remaining 3 framed bays replaced with brick on ground floor, 6 sash windows irregularly spaced with glazing bars, the 2 on left hand breaking eaves with gablets, ground floor has C20 casements scattered, some leaded and a C20 square bay with hipped tile roof with entrance door to left under flat hood on cut brackets, C19 chimney in first framed bay from right. Listing NGR: SU7644382579 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 41282 Legacy System: LBS Legal This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest. End of official listing © Historic England 2020 Henley Royal Regatta Headquarters Overview Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1449077 Date first listed: 18-Apr-2018 Statutory Address: Henley Royal Regatta Headquarters, Henley Bridge, Henley-on-thames, RG9 2LY Map © Crown Copyright and database right 2020. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900. © British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2020. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006. Use of this data is subject to Terms and Conditions (https://historicengland.org.uk/terms/website-terms-conditions/). The above map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. For a copy of the full scale map, please see the attached PDF - 1449077.pdf (http://mapservices.HistoricEngland.org.uk/printwebservicehle/StatutoryPrint.svc/515971/HLE_A4L_Grade|HLE_A3L_Grade.pdf) The PDF will be generated from our live systems and may take a few minutes to download depending on how busy our servers are. We apologise for this delay. This copy shows the entry on 23-Jul-2020 at 10:03:27. Location Statutory Address: Henley Royal Regatta Headquarters, Henley Bridge, Henley-on-thames, RG9 2LY The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. District: Wokingham (Unitary Authority) Parish: Remenham National Grid Reference: SU7641282616 Summary Henley Royal Regatta Headquarters, designed in 1984-1986 by the Terry Farrell Partnership. Reasons for Designation The Henley Royal Regatta Headquarters building, Henley-on-Thames is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: Architectural interest: * a festive, yet stately, civic building in the post-modern classical idiom, combining a reinterpretation of the temple form with Thames boathouses and other types of riverside architecture; * a significant scheme by Terry Farrell, a leading British architect and exponent of Post-Modernism. Historic interest: * the administrative headquarters of the Henley Royal Regatta, an important sporting event in the country’s history endowed with royal patronage; * a rare example of a permanent building entirely devoted to an annual sporting fixture. Group value: * with a number of listed buildings on the opposite bank of the river and with Henley Bridge (Grade I), and with The Grandstand for Henley Royal Regatta (Grade II). History Post-Modernism, a movement and a style prevalent in architecture between about 1975 and 1990, is defined in terms of its relationship with modern architecture. Post-Modernist architecture is characterised by its plurality; engagement with urban context and setting, reference to older architectural traditions and use of metaphor and symbolism. As a formal language it has affinities with mannerism (unexpected exaggeration, distortions of classical scale and proportion) and the spatial sophistication of Baroque architecture. Post-Modernism accepts the technology of industrialised society but expresses it in more diverse ways than the machine imagery of the contemporary High-Tech style. The origins of the style are found in the United States, notably in the work of Robert Venturi and Charles Moore which combined aspects of their country’s traditions (ranging from the C19 Shingle Style to Las Vegas) with the knowing irony of pop art. A parallel European stream combined an abstracted classicism or a revival of 1930s rationalism with renewed interest in the continental city and its building types. In England, the American and European idioms converged in the late 1970s to produce works by architects of international significance, including James Stirling, and distinctive voices unique to Britain such as John Outram. The 1980s revival of the British economy was manifested in major urban projects by Terry Farrell and others in London, while practices such as CZWG devised striking imagery for commercial and residential developments in Docklands and elsewhere. Henley Regatta was established in 1839, initially by the Mayor and people of Henley-on-Thames, but received royal patronage from 1851, becoming known as the Royal Regatta thereafter. The event has been successively expanded in length, to three days in 1886, four days in 1906 and five days in 1986, and in 1913 a grandstand was constructed upriver, at the point of the finishing line, to designs by Frederick G Sainsbury (Grade II). In the early 1980s Farrell was commissioned to design a replacement for the Regatta’s previous premises. The site, adjoining the town’s C18 road bridge, was previously occupied by a disused public house, the Carpenters’ Arms. The design for the new building took the form of a classical building, while referencing river-side buildings along the Thames and elsewhere. The symbolism of the Regatta was incorporated by means of the crossed oars of the balustrades, and the HRR monogram which crowns the pediment. The building, which was contracted to cost £675,000 was completed in 18 months by the local contractor JM Jones & Sons and the building was opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II, the regatta’s patron, in April 1986. The building won several awards, including the Financial Times Architectural Award in 1987, the Civic Trust Award 1988 and the RIBA Award 1988. The Regatta later commissioned Terry Farrell Partnership to design a balcony and staircase for Fawley Temple, James Wyatt’s 1771 eyecatcher on Temple Island, at the start of the course. Since commissioning the design, the regatta has expanded to an extra day in length and the permanent staff who work in the building (as of 2017) has grown from five to ten in number. In 2018 the committee room was altered by the addition of an office at first floor level, designed by John Letherland.