Limnerslease, the Great Studio and the West Wing
LIMNERSLEASE, THE GREAT STUDIO AND THE WEST WING, DOWN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029544
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Limnerslease, the Great Studio and the West Wing
- Statutory Address:
- LIMNERSLEASE, THE GREAT STUDIO AND THE WEST WING, DOWN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1029544
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Limnerslease, the Great Studio and the West Wing
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIMNERSLEASE, THE GREAT STUDIO AND THE WEST WING, DOWN 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:
- LIMNERSLEASE, THE GREAT STUDIO AND THE WEST WING, DOWN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 95699 47829
Details
SU 94 NE COMPTON C.P. DOWN LANE
3/66 Limnerslease, the 14.6.67 Great Studio and the West Wing
II
House, now divided. 1891 by Sir Ernest George for G F Watts. Snecked Bargate stone below, half timbered above with pebbledashed infill. Plain tiled roofs, hipped and sweeping down to ends. Roughly L-shaped with projecting studio wing to right end. Two storeys and attic under hipped-roof casement dormers. Tall stack to front right with corbelled top, arcaded rear ridge stacks to left and right. Casement fenestration, the majority leaded, one window to first floor left in projecting half hip and gable break in re-entrant angle. Three windows to centre, one in hipped break to right and one ground floor window in extension to left. Single storey wing to right with one large wood framed mullioned and transomed window. Ribbed door in re-entrant angle under flat roofed porch on bracket. Half glazed door to left end of wing in porch recess.
C20 brick and weatherboarded gable end extension to left end. Weather- boarded porch to left end. Weather-boarded porch to right hand return front with two dormers and a further door.
Listed for historical reasons as the home of George Frederick Watts, OMRA, painter and sculptor until his death in 1904. After his death his widow, Mary Seton Watts, continued to live there until her death in 1938.
Listing NGR: SU9569947829
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288323
- 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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