Bear Place

{{short description|Grade II* listed country house in Berkshire, England}}

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|name = Bear Place

|image = Bear Place, Berkshire, 1788.jpg

|caption = Bear Place in 1788

|type = Country House

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|locmapin = Berkshire#England

|location = Hare Hatch, Berkshire, England

|architect = Edward Edgerly

|architecture = Georgian

|built = 1784–1785

|built_for = David Ximenes, Senior

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|designation1 = Listed Building

|designation1_offname = Bear Place

|designation1_date = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1967|1|26}}

|designation1_number = {{Listed building England|1118177}}

|designation2 = Scheduled Monument

|designation2_offname = Moated site 100m south-west of Bear Place

|designation2_date = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1977|3|3}}

|designation2_number = {{Listed building England|1013137}}

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Bear Place is an English country house. It is a historic Grade II* listed building. The house is located northeast of Wargrave, Berkshire.

History

The house was built in 1784–1785 for David Ximenes, Senior, father of David Ximenes and Morris Ximenes.

In the 20th Century the house was owned by the Barons Remnant, beginning with James Remnant, 1st Baron Remnant in around 1930.{{cite web |title=The Lord Remnant, CVO — October 23, 1930 – March 4, 2022 |url=https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/community-news--all-districts-/171459/the-lord-remnant-cvo-october-23-1930-march-4-2022.html |website=The Henley Standard |access-date=2 March 2024}}

Architecture

Bear Place is a three-storey, seven bay, Georgian brick house built with materials from a demolished Elizabethan house on the site, the moat of which still remains to the southwest of the current house.{{cite web |title=Moated site 100m south-west of Bear Place, Wargrave – 1013137 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1013137 |website=historicengland.org.uk |access-date=3 March 2024 |language=en}} An unusual architectural feature of the house is that the three bays on either side of the entrance curve out to create bows. It was designed and built by Edward Edgerly of Hurley, and cost {{Inflation|UK|843|1785|fmt=eq|orig=yes|cursign=£}}.{{Inflation/fn|UK}}{{cite book |last1=Tyack |first1=Geoffrey |last2=Bradley |first2=Simon |last3=Pevsner |first3=Nikolaus |last4=Brindle |first4=Steven |title=Berkshire |date=2010 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven, Conn. |isbn=9780300126624 |page=603 |edition=New, rev. |ref=Pevsner}}

References

External links

[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1118177 Historic England – Bear Place]

Category:Grade II* listed buildings in Berkshire

Category:Grade II* listed houses

Category:Country houses in Berkshire

Category:Scheduled monuments in Berkshire

Category:Borough of Wokingham

Category:Houses completed in 1785