DUNOTTAR SCHOOL ( HIGH TREES)

DUNOTTAR SCHOOL, HIGH TREES ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260767
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: DUNOTTAR SCHOOL ( HIGH TREES)
Statutory Address:: DUNOTTAR SCHOOL, HIGH TREES ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260767
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: DUNOTTAR SCHOOL ( HIGH TREES)
Statutory Address 1:: DUNOTTAR SCHOOL, HIGH TREES ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: HIGH TREES, HIGH TREES ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DUNOTTAR SCHOOL, HIGH TREES ROAD
Statutory Address:: HIGH TREES, HIGH TREES ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Reigate and Banstead (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ2685749556

Details

1. 5388 HIGH TREES ROAD

Dunottar School (known as High Trees) II

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1. 5388 TQ 2649 18/248

HIGH TREES ROAD (South side, off)

Dunottar School (known as High Trees)

II

2. House now school. 1867 with additions c1908. Later C20 additions not of special interest. Ashlar, Welsh slate roof. Main interest lies in the main 2-storey block which has side wings; a c1908 former stable and garage block with tower lies to north-east. Italianate style. North (entrance) front: Main block 2 storeys, 7 bays, central 3 bays recessed with side wings set back, of 1 storey to right, 2 storeys to left. The whole has plinth, rusticated ground floor with guilloche band above, 1st floor rusticated quoins and dentilled and modillioned eaves cornice. Sashes to ground floor, C20 wooden cross casements above. Central tetrastyle portico, the columns with frosted rustication to base and supporting full classical entablature with balustrade over; inside portico is glazed double door under fanlight in keyed round-arched architrave flanked by pilasters and by narrow windows. On 1st floor windows have raised panels below jambs of architraves and corbelled cornices. Right wing has balustraded parapet. Left wing of 3 bays, has tripartite window at left end on each floor. Roof of main block hipped over outer bays and with lateral stacks; C20 roofing material to left wing. South (garden) front: style as north front with dentilled cornice over ground floor. Central 3 bays recessed with steps up to triple round-arched arcade with Corinthian attached column-and- pilaster piers, hoodmoulds, footage- decorated spandrels, and central glazed door flanked by windows with 3 windows above (as north front). To each outer bay a square ground-floor bay window with 3-light front window having banded Corinthian-column mullions, dentil cornice balustrade to balcony above and triple 1st floor window. Single-storey side wings have dentil cornices and balustrated parapets, left wing with door on right and triple window, both with columns as before; right wing of brick with doors and windows in dentilled recesses, ashlar parapet and balustrade. To rear, on right, is later tower with clock face inuyper, recessed, stage and corbelled cornice (formerly supporting cupola). Returns: style continued, with central triple window to west return and bay window at north end of east return. Interior: Many of the high quality original features survive, including: fine parquet floors in the top lit front hall, ball-room and stair hall, and a Minton tile floor in the vestibule; enriched" panelling, cornices and plaster ceilings (in particular in the front hall, ball-room and room adjoining billiard room); original 6-panel doors in elaborately moulded architraves; fine fireplaces throughout with cast- iron grates and richly-moulded architraves, elaborate ironwork to gallery in front hall and to balustrade of staircase. A fine and well-preserved example of its period. W E Hitchin, Surrey at the Beginning of the C20, P25 Sale Catalogue of 1933.

Listing NGR: TQ2685749556

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Hitchin, W E, Surrey at the beginning of the 20th Century25

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.