Ivy House

Ivy House, French Street, Sunbury on Thames, TW16 5JU

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1029665
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
Ivy House
Statutory Address:
Ivy House, French Street, Sunbury on Thames, TW16 5JU

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1029665
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
Ivy House
Statutory Address 1:
Ivy House, French Street, Sunbury on Thames, TW16 5JU

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:
Ivy House, French Street, Sunbury on Thames, TW16 5JU

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

County:
Surrey
District:
Spelthorne (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 11240 69036

Details

TQ 16NW
4/29

SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, FORMER UD
Sunbury
FRENCH STREET
Ivy House

11/9/51

GV
II
House, extended and divided. Late C17/early C18, extended in C18 and altered in C20. Brown brick with red brick dressings and hipped, plain tiled roofs. L-shaped plan with wing projecting to left.

Three storeys on old range, two storeys on wing. Rear end stacks on old range, further stacks on left of wing under corbelled tops. Cement-rendered angle pier to right and shallow plat bands over ground floor and first floor. Boxed wooden eaves. Three bays on old elevation with three nine-pane, glazing-bar sash windows across the second floor under renewed gauged brick heads. Central window in shallow break with dressings extending down to central window on first floor. Three twelve-pane, glazing-bar sash windows on first floor under gauged brick heads, that to centre with ogee cut brick decoration to head. Two twelve-pane, glazing-bar sash windows on ground floor, one either side of door of six panels in panelled strip surround with traceried fanlight and open pediment in console brackets over.

Left hand wing: two twelve-pane first floor sash windows and two C20 windows below. Moulded eaves cornice to roof. Return front with one first floor glazing-bar sash window and pentice extension to ground floor with mullioned and transomed glazing-bar casement fenestration. Left hand return front: three glazing-bar sashes to first floor under wood canopies to upper sash.

The house is built on the site of Cromwell House, a residence of Thomas Cromwell,
Earl of Essex, 1514-1522.

Listing NGR: TQ1124069036

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
288001
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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