Charters House is a
Grade II listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Ir ...
building overlooking Sunningdale, Berkshire, built in 1938. The architects were
George Adie
George Mountford Adie (14 January 1901 – 29 July 1989) was a British architect, the co-founder (with Frederick Button) of Adie, Button and Partners in Mayfair, London.
George Mountford Adie was born in the UK on 14 January 1901. He started as ...
and
H. G. Hammond of
Adie, Button and Partners
Adie, Button and Partners was a British firm of architects, best known for designing the Grade II* listed Stockwell Garage, a large bus depot in Stockwell, London, which opened in 1952 and is still in use.
It was founded by George Adie and Fred ...
.
Charters was built for the industrialist
Frank Parkinson
Frank Parkinson (7 February 1887 – 28 January 1946)J. A. Chartres, 'Parkinson, Frank (1887–1946)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, October 200accessed 23 January 2010/ref> was a British electrica ...
on the site of an earlier house built in the late 1860s by
William Terrick Hamilton. Parkinson’s guests included
Winston Churchill and the
Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In 1949, the house was bought by
Sir Montague Burton. It later became a corporate headquarters and has since been redeveloped as an apartment complex and spa.
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Berkshire, England, designed by Adie, Button and Partners.
Grade II listed buildings in Berkshire
Grade II listed houses
Country houses in Berkshire
Houses completed in 1938
Art Deco architecture in England
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