Temple Elfande
TEMPLE ELFANDE, TEMPLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028739
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Elfande
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE ELFANDE, TEMPLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028739
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Elfande
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE ELFANDE, TEMPLE LANE
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:
- TEMPLE ELFANDE, TEMPLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Capel
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 19212 39741
Details
CAPEL C.P. TEMPLE LANE TQ 13NE 11/112 Temple Elfande 11/11/66 GV II
House, once much larger. Built 1541 by Sir Richard Cowper, extended in C17 and C19. Timber framed, exposed below on right hand return front with whitewashed render infill, tile hung above on jettied first floor. Horsham slab roofs. T- shaped plan with entrance now on rear of house; former entrance now on right hand return front. Old entrance front:- Two storeys with attic in projecting gable to right; galleting in mortar under the eaves, with one leaded attic case- ment. One 'cross' window on each floor below. Front stack to left with two diamond-pane first floor windows to left of it, one to right; two ground floor windows to left, one 4-light, enlarged window to right. Door to left in open gabled porch. Rear: large stacks, placed diagonally with Horsham slab offsets, to left and right. Three first floor windows alternating with stacks; two windows on ground floor. Entrance front:- tile hung gable projecting to right with attic window and one window on each floor of left hand return wall. Offset stack in angle with left range. Double gable range to left, attic window over one between-floors window and two ground floor windows below. Brick dressed, arrow slit, glazed breather above hip-roofed porch, and C20 door. Interior:- Wealth of framing visible. Chalk fireplace and two doors with oval peep-holes covered by flaps. The names derives from the fact that the Templars, and later the Hospitallers, held a Manor here.
Listing NGR: TQ1921239741
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290226
- 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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