Old Surrey Hall
OLD SURREY HALL, HOLLOW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1029883
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Old Surrey Hall
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SURREY HALL, HOLLOW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1029883
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Surrey Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SURREY HALL, HOLLOW 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:
- OLD SURREY HALL, HOLLOW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Tandridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dormansland
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ4204439962
Details
TQ 43 NW
13/210
9/3/82
LINGFIELD C.P.
HOLLOW LANE
Old Surrey Hall
(formerly listed as Old Surrey Hall (Great Hall range only))
GV
I
Country house. C15 hall with additions of 1922-4 and later by George Crawley.
Extended to south in 1937 by Walter Godfrey. Old hall of close studded timber
framing with herringbone brick infill on stone plinth. Horsham slab roof with
sprocketed eaves jettied on curved brackets. Extensions to ends and across
front in similar materials, timber framed on stone plinth with plastered infill,
Horsham slab roofs. Southern ballroom extension in dressed stone with plain
tiled roofs.
Original Hall across east side of courtyard with projecting end extensions to
north and south. Screen range across west,open on ground floor with stone
extensions at right angles to main courtyard on south side. Hall: Two storeys,
three framed bays with end stacks, offset. Square bay to southernmost bay on
both east and west sides with gable over decorated with trefoil carved barge boards.
4 trefoil light window to right on courtyard side; mullion and transomed window
to first floor left under quatrefoil band. Arched ribbed doors in projecting stone
surrounds placed diagonally on re-entrant angles at either end of Hall. Southern
range courtyard facade has 3 gables at eaves height with casement fenestration, 2
on courtyard front of north range. Screen range across front open on ground floor
with central bay higher. Further doors at ends of ground floor corridor. Jettied
gabled bays to either end of screen range with ballroom extension to right
containing deep recessed round arched windows. Hopper heads marked "IA & MA 1937"
recording the Anderson Family who commissioned the work.
Interior:- Hall: Arched four centred roof trusses, moulded and with moulded
beams; curved scissor rafters over. Octagonal arrangement to centre of roof
possibly originally intended for lantern. Pattern of roofing similar to Crowhurst
Place nearby although in a single curve. Modern wainscot and carved screen.
Original door by window bay, service doors survive in passage. Inscription on
post in Great Hall records - restoration by George Abraham Crawley in 1922-4.
VCH: Vol. IV, pp 306, 400
PEVSNER: Buildings of England (Surrey) (1971) p. 596
GEORGE ABRAHAM CRAWLEY: A Memoir
Listing NGR: TQ4204439962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 287450
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
George Abraham Crawley A Memoir, ()
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey, (1912), 306 400
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 396
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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