Erasmus House

Erasmus House, Church Square, Shepperton, TW17 9JY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1029698
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: Erasmus House
Statutory Address:: Erasmus House, Church Square, Shepperton, TW17 9JY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1029698
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: Erasmus House
Statutory Address 1:: Erasmus House, Church Square, Shepperton, TW17 9JY

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Erasmus House, Church Square, Shepperton, TW17 9JY

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 07691 66632

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 December 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 06NE 3/15

SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, FORMER UD Shepperton CHURCH SQUARE Erasmus House

(Formerly listed as The Rectory)

11/9/51

GV II* House, former rectory. C15, refronted in c.1700 and extended to rear. Timber framed, clad to front with mathematical tiles, coved plaster eaves and hipped plain tiled roofs; C20 tiles to left. H-shape plan.

Two storeys and attics to centre under four tile hung, hip-roofed, glazing-bar sash dormers; first floor jettied on moulded bressumer. Rear stack to left of centre, end stack to left and ridge stack to right end of centre range. Seven twelve-pane, glazing-bar sash windows across the centre of the first floor in open boxes, six windows below. One sash window on each floor of end wings and on inner return walls. Central panelled door under flat hood on volute scroll brackets.

Right hand return front: leaded oriel window to ground floor left, mixed sash windows and casement fenestration on remainder. C20 extension to right with leaded window wrapping around the corner. Rear; angle bay range to left of yellow brick, hipped slate roofed range to right with cambered-head sash fenestration.

Interior: hall house, reputedly dating from 1498. Moulded ceiling frames exposed on ground floor room to right with roll moulded and chamfered spine beam. Carolean staircase with straight string and oak newels. C18 Chinese hand painted designs recently discovered on the walls.

Listing NGR: TQ0769166632

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Legacy System number:: 287986
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
Savidge, A , The Parsonage in England its History and Architecture, (1964), 90-2 111-2
Savidge, A , The Parsonage in England its History and Architecture, (1964), 150 183

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.