Gosden House School

GOSDEN HOUSE SCHOOL, HORSHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1029492
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:
Gosden House School
Statutory Address:
GOSDEN HOUSE SCHOOL, HORSHAM ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1029492
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:
Gosden House School
Statutory Address 1:
GOSDEN HOUSE SCHOOL, HORSHAM 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GOSDEN HOUSE SCHOOL, HORSHAM ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Surrey
District:
Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:
Shalford
National Grid Reference:
TQ 00341 45654

Details

TQ 04 NW SHALFORD CP HORSHAM ROAD

4/149 Gosden House School 14.6.67 II House, now school. Early C19. Rendered cladding, whitewashed and incised on right hand extension, hipped slate roofs with deep eaves to main block.

Main block: two storeys and mezzanine on plinth with wide plat band over ground and first floors. Stacks to left and right of centre. Regular four bay front with square sash windows to mezzanine storey, tall, 12- pane glazing bar sash windows to ground and first floors. Doubled half glazed doors in stilted arch surround to left of centre under flat roofed porch with two Doric columns carrying entablature. Extension: three bays, two storeys high with plat band and parapet over first floor. Stack to rear right. 12-pane glazing bar sash windows on first floor, two 8-pane glazing bar sash windows below flanking central 15-pane window. Left hand return front: three bays with outer tripartite sash windows.

Rear: round bay to left with deep eaves and tripartite sash windows. Three bay pedimented wing to left with giant Doric angle pilasters and end order to three bays. Single storey extension surround and extend further from the wing.

Interior: Hall - two columns with egg and dart moulding to capitals. Fireplace surround to left with "oeil de boeuf" over mantle, egg and dart mouldings and garlands.

Undergoing restoration at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: TQ0034145654

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
288408
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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