KINGSWOOD COURT

KINGSWOOD COURT, WARREN LODGE DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1029015
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: KINGSWOOD COURT
Statutory Address:: KINGSWOOD COURT, WARREN LODGE DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1029015
Date first listed:: 27-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: KINGSWOOD COURT
Statutory Address 1:: KINGSWOOD COURT, WARREN LODGE DRIVE

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:: KINGSWOOD COURT, WARREN LODGE DRIVE

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:: TQ 24465 55353

Details

KINGSWOOD TQ 25 NW WARREN LODGE DRIVE

3/105 Kingswood Court

II

House, now old people's home. 1912. By Ernest Newton; buiders Messrs Collins and Godfrey, Tewksbury. Purpleish red brick in Flemish bond with red brick dressings. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys with attic; service using 1 storey with attic. Entrance elevation has 3-bay service wing to left of main range of 11 bays arranged 2:3:1:3:2 central and end bays projecting. In Neo-Georgian style paving: plinth; rusticated quoins; giant pilasters with bands of darker brick rising into moulded cornice; coped parapet with dies over pilasters; 12-pane sashes with keyed flat brick arches and stone sills. Central bay: step up to ashlar porch with ionic columns supporting round-arched hood; recessed panelled double-door having side-lights with linked- oval glazing bars, and small-paned fanlight; lst-floor window, in raised panel, has moulded brick architrave; returns each have oeil-de-boeuf to ground floor and 1st floor window in moulded brick architrave. Bays 8 and 9 are blind on ground floor, apart from oculus on right, and have tall 18-pane sashed stair windows on 1st floor. M-roof, hipped at ends and over projecting end bays, having eight 2- light, leaded casement dormers with alternate segmental and triangular pediments, and 3 broad corniced stacks in valley. Service wing, set back on left, has three 2-light leaded windows to ground floor, and one to centre of 1st floor breaking eaves under hipped roof. C1980 annexe added to right not of special interest. Garden (rear) elevation: 9 bays, 1:2:1:2:1:2 bays, the 2 right-hand bays subsidiary and set back slightly leaving main range with central entrance and 2-storey canted bays to outer bays; lower service wing to right. Platt band to central bays. Entrance bay: paired double-doors with small-pane glazing in semicircular ashlar portico having 3 steps, ionic coloumns (distyle in antis) supporting entablature with pulvinated frieze and dentil cornice, and balcony above with decorative iron railings; 1st floor bay breaks forward (3 times) and has tall sash with fanlight in rusticated round-arched surround. 8 dormers as before, but of 4 lights over entrance. Left return: on right, small-paned double door in moulded brick architrave with blind window over; canted bay on left; 3 segmental pedimented dormers. Interior: retains original decor including panelling, moulded cornices and ceiling mouldings, panelled doors and decorative fireplaces. Entrance lobby has marbled floor, plaster festoons and quadripartite vault. The entrance and stair halls are particularly lavish, the former with elaborate architrave to door into former study; the latter having wooden open-string stair with turned, fluted balusters, columnar newels, ramped handrail with massive spiral curtail, and on 1st floor landing an ionic distyle in antis colonnade. The house is described by Newton's son as one of his four great houses. W G Newton, The Work of Ernest Newton RA (1925) R Brown (ed), Architectural Outsiders.

Listing NGR: TQ2446555353

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Legacy System number:: 289585
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brown, R, The Architectural Outsiders, (1985)
Newton, W, The Work of Ernest Newton RA, (1925)

Legal

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