The Salt Box
THE SALT BOX, LOWER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028664
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Salt Box
- Statutory Address:
- THE SALT BOX, LOWER ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-10-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/00772/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028664
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Salt Box
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SALT BOX, LOWER ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE SALT BOX, LOWER ROAD
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:
- TQ 14927 55789
Details
FETCHAM LOWER ROAD TQ/15/NW (north side) 2/56
23.11.73 The Salt Box
GV II
Small house. c.1700; altered and enlarged in 1924. Handmade red brick in Flemish bond, red tile roof. Two-unit plan, now double-depth by addition to the rear (perhaps replacing a smaller rear extension). Two storeys and 3 bays, with cellar and attic; the symmetrical facade has a gabled centre breaking forwards slightly, a plinth, and a 3-course band to each bay; an added gabled porch in matching style and materials, with a board door and a lunette above; 2 windows at ground floor and 3 above, all with gauged brick heads, those at 1st floor with recessed panels below the sills, and all furnished with C18 12-pane sashes which have very thick glazing bars and are not counter-balanced (the upper leaves dropping onto retaining catches in the frame); a central gable with an oculus, brick coping and kneelers, and a weathervane on the apex; and at the left end of the facade an unusual rainwater head with a prominent horizontal spout in the centre. Both gables have brick coping with kneelers, and chimneys at the rear corners, but the coping of the right-hand gable has a flat top run into the chimney stack (giving a profile like a salt-box). Attached to the left return wall is a modern conservatory, and the 1924 addition projects behind this. This rear addition is in matching style and materials. Interior: exposed beams and joists at ground floor (undecorated), and an exposed timber-framed partition wall to the staircase; central doglegged staircase winding round a newel, with closed string, square newels, and turned balusters; at 1st floor, a fireplace with bolection- moulded wooden surround and cast-iron ducks-nest grate.
Listing NGR: TQ1492755789
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290443
- 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.
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