Albury Park
ALBURY PARK, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1029565
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Albury Park
- Statutory Address:
- ALBURY PARK, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1029565
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Albury Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALBURY PARK, NEW 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:
- ALBURY PARK, NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Albury
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 06390 47700
Details
TQ 04 NE ALBURY C.P. NEW ROAD Albury Park
5/17 Albury Park 14.6.67
GV II*
House. C16 origins on older cellars, rebuilt by John and George Evelyn in C17, altered circa 1700 and extended by Sir John Soane in 1800, further altered by Hakewill in the early C19 and remodelled by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin in 1846 - 1852, possibly with the assistance of his son Edward Welby Pugin. Galleted ironstone with brick dressings and plain tiled roofs. In Tudor Gothic style.
Entrance front: Three storeys with attic storey in taller tower to right end. Battlemented parapets obscuring the roofs. Multiple rubbed and cut brick stacks in varying patterns to ends and centre, some of the 63 chimneys on the house - its main feature - each of different design. Nine bays with string courses over ground and first floors. Buttressed two-bay break to left and right end, brick dressed casement fenestration with 7 windows across first floor and 9 windows above. One large stone dressed casement window to left of centre. Six larger windows to ground floor, stone dressed and with arched stone lights to recessed entrance bays. Arched door to right of centre, further door to right.
Left hand return front: (North side facing gardens) Two storeys and attics with 4 gabled dormers alternating with chimneys. Two storey, spindly porch to left with octagonal angle piers and brick finials. Chamfered arched brick surround under label moulding with shields over.
Rear: (East elevation) Square tower to left with angle bay to ground and first floors. Single storey service wings to right hand side.
Interior: Remnants of earlier remodelling survive. Library - modelled by Evelyn with C17 brick and stone fireplace, dentilled eaves with egg and dart pattern. Hall - Soane staircase survives, one arm winding around a narrow oblong well. Drawing Room - Flaxman fireplace recently reinstated. Marble with caryatids and scroll and flower work. The house is set out in grounds laid out by John Evelyn.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971), p.93. COUNTRY LIFE: AUGUST 25 and SEPTEMBER 1 1950, pp.598 and 674.
Listing NGR: TQ0638447696
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 93
Country Life in 1 September, (1950)
Country Life in 25 August, (1950), 598
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 40 Surrey,
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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