FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE, ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY SCHOOL ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY SCHOOL

FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE, PHILANTHROPIC ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1029047
Date first listed:: 10-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE, ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY SCHOOL ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE, PHILANTHROPIC ROAD

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Date:: 2001-06-10
Reference:: IOE01/01009/21
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1029047
Date first listed:: 10-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE, ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY SCHOOL ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE, PHILANTHROPIC ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE, ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY SCHOOL, PHILANTHROPIC ROAD
Statutory Address 3:: ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY SCHOOL, PHILANTHROPIC 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:: FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE, PHILANTHROPIC ROAD
Statutory Address:: FORMER ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY OFFICE, ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY SCHOOL, PHILANTHROPIC ROAD
Statutory Address:: ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY SCHOOL, PHILANTHROPIC 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:: TQ 28685 49498

Details

REDHILL PHILANTHROPIC ROAD TQ 24 ?ill (east end, off) 26/270 Former Royal Philanthropic Society Office, Royal Philanthropic Society School

II

House, now unoccupied. c1600, altered late C18-early C19 and mid-late C19 when it was considerably extended. Timber framed house, with brick, galleted rubblestone and tile-hung additions, the later C19 work of red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs. Original house 2 storeys with loft, 4 bays with 2 1/2 bay cross-wing at west end, this truncated by wing added across south front of 2 storeys with attic, 4 bays.' South elevation (later C19, main entrance elevation): left bay wider, slightly projecting and gabled. Cemented plinth, ashlar quoins to angles and window surrounds, windows mullioned and transomed with casements. Doorway, to right of bay 2, has 6-panel door in chamfered surround protected by gabled timber porch with cusped spandrels, braced king post to gable, and scalloped, chamfered bargeboards with cusped tracery and pendant finials. 2-light window to left of porch ; canted bay window with hipped roof to right; three 2-light windows above and three 2-light gabled attic dormers, the gables treated similarly to porch but plainer. Gabled left bay has 4-light window to ground floor with small-pane glazing and 3-light window to first floor and attic. Moulded ashlar kneelers and coping to reused verges of gables. Lateral stack to rear of lift bay with two diagonally-set flues. Rear: Original house has cross-wing projecting on right. Ground floor mostly masked by added outshuts of brick and, at right end, of galleted rubblestone; left-hand outshut has board door (with 2 small glazed panels at top) on right of 3-light diamond-paned window. First floor, where exposed, has close- studded timber frame with posts, studs, tension braces to main range and top of one arched brace to left side of cross-wing; gable of wing has tie-beam, 3 main posts supporting collar, then 2 posts with short collar and single post to apex. Various C19 and C20 windows. Cross-ridge stack to right side of bay 2 (lower part C18, upper part later C19); another in front roof pitch of bay 1 with one behind. Left gable has raised verge with kneeler and coping in front. Right return: The gabled ends of the 2 ranges, all in later C19 brickwork as front, left bay taller and slightly projecting; outshut gable on right is of brick on galleted rubblestone base with decorative tile-hung gable. Left return: Gabled addition on left and added lean-tg against ground floor of cross-wing, the former with galleted rubble- stone ground floor and decorative tile-hung gable, the latter of brick with boarded up pointed-arched-windows (later C19);, first floor of wing decorative tile-hung. Interior: Victorian south range has open-well stair with open string, turned balusters, tapering square section newels and acorn finials and pendants; modillion cornice to hall and to stair landing which has triple-arched arcade with keyed archivolts. c1600-style panelling to various rooms in both the C19 and original ranges. Original, north, range has parts -of timber-framed structure visible including chamfered spine and cross beams with lamb's tongue stops. Back stair and attic stair late C18-early C19 style having closed strings, square-section balusters and gun-barrel type newels, the back stair dog-legged and with 2-panel door to cupboard underneath it. Roof of original range is fine with queen-post trusses, clasped through purlins jointed at trusses, coupled rafters (numbered) and arched wind braces; the brick stack to bay 2 rises in position of earlier stack (the 3 pairs of rafters at this point being replacements; loft floorof wide tongued- and-grooved boards (disintegrated).

Listing NGR: TQ2868549498

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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.