Hound House
Hound House, Hound House Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029471
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hound House
- Statutory Address:
- Hound House, Hound House Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029471
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hound House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hound House, Hound House 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:
- Hound House, Hound House Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shere
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 07457 44837
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 October 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 04 SE
10/194
SHERE CP
Hound House Road
Hound House
(Formerly listed as EWHURST ROAD Hound House)
14.6.67
GV
II
House. Mid C16 to rear, extended to left in C17, further extensions across the front of 1815 and to ends in mid C19, C20 extensions to rear.
Front range: colourwashed stucco with low pitched, hipped, slate roof. Two storeys over basement with deep corbelled eaves and stacks to rear left and right. Regular front: three sash windows across first floor, two sixteen-pane glazing bar sashes to ground floor. Doubled panel doors in recessed porch to centre with oval fanlight, flanking lights and moulded wood frame. Half-oval portico with fluted Doric columns and pilasters on angled responds supporting full entablature. One bay set back to right of sandstone block with brick dressings on left hand return front.
C20 wing extending to rear left of 45° parallel to front range and set slightly to right is old house: timber framed clad in sandstone and chalk block with painted brick dressings. Some posts of the frame visible. Plain tiled roof, hipped to left, hipped with gable to right. Triple corbelled stack to right and smaller front ridge stack to right of centre. Irregular easement fenestration, largely leaded. Four windows on first floor with larger casements to first floor left breaking up into eaves. Two cambered head windows to ground floor with one pair of casement doors to left. Panelled door to centre under hipped roof open porch. Wing canted at 45° to right end.
Listing NGR: TQ0745744837
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288458
- 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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