THE MANSION

THE MANSION, 68, 70 AND 72, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1028620
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: THE MANSION
Statutory Address:: THE MANSION, 68, 70 AND 72, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1028620
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: THE MANSION
Statutory Address 1:: THE MANSION, 68, 70 AND 72, CHURCH STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE MANSION, 68, 70 AND 72, CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ1661656262

Details

TQ 1656 SE 12/130 7.9.51

LEATHERHEAD CHURCH STREET (west side) Nos. 68, 70, and 72 (The Mansion)

GV II

Large house, now council offices and library. 1739 rebuilding of earlier house, by Alexander Akehurst, partly remodelled c.1810; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with stone dressings (painted white), red tile roof. Double-pile plan, with wings added at each end. Two storeys and 1:7:1 bays over cellars, symmetrical, the end bays breaking forwards; rendered plinth, punched rusticated quoins, plain frieze and moulded cornice, parapet with flat coping; the centre has a rectangular flat- roofed porch with fluted Ionic corner pilasters, plan frieze and dentilled cornice, and recessed glazed doors; the windows are all 12-pane sashes, those at ground floor with elaborate moulded architraves and cornices on consoles and those above with raised sills and similar cornices. Two-span hipped roof with 2 ridge chimneys. At the left end is a set-back 1-bay link to a service wing (which is not of special interest), and at the right-hand end a set-back 2-bay extension. Rear: the 7-bay main range has a central doorway with moulded architrave and cornice on large consoles and a glazed door, some blocked cellar openings in the plinth, an inserted glazed door at the right-hand end, 12-pane sashed windows on both floors with louvred sliding shutters, an oculus at the left end of the 1st floor, and a hipped roof with a small dormer in the centre and 2 ridge chimneys. Attached at each end is a 3-bay wing (that at the south end set back), with similar windows at 1st floor and a large square conservatory projected from the ground floor, both with Tuscan columns tetrastyle in antis, glazed screen walls and flat roofs. Interior: the entrance hall has pilasters and vine frieze, ceiling beams with similar decoration, and a fine early C18 doglegged open-string staircase with flying upper flight, carved brackets, 2 turned balusters per tread, and ramped handrail (perhaps ex situ); and inserted partition walls. The rear range (now the public library) has a moulded plaster cornice and a shouldered fireplace of white marble with a wooden entablature in the central room, and to the south of this a panelled room containing a Doric screen with 2 fluted columns distyle in antis.

Listing NGR: TQ1661656262

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Legacy System:: LBS

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