CLAREMONT HOUSE

CLAREMONT HOUSE, CLAREMONT PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1030202
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1953
List Entry Name:: CLAREMONT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CLAREMONT HOUSE, CLAREMONT PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1030202
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: CLAREMONT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CLAREMONT HOUSE, CLAREMONT PARK

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CLAREMONT HOUSE, CLAREMONT PARK

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Elmbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 13428 63328

Details

TQ 16SW 5/l16

BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE, Esher, CLAREMONT PARK Claremont House

(Formerly listed as Claremont)

14.8.53

GV I

Country house, now the Claremont-Fancourt school. 1770 by Henry Holland, Lancelot (Capability) Brown and John Soane for Lord Clive. Yellow brick, stone plinth and dressings with hipped slate roofs. End stacks. 2 storeys over basement with attic under flat roofed dormers. Rectangular, 9 bays by 7 around central,top-lit staircase. Main front: 9 bays with ashlar string course over basement, modillion cornice with stone balustrade to roof. Glazing bar sash windows in stone surrounds projecting hoods and cills on scroll brackets to first floor, alternating triangular and segmental pediments over ground floor windows, all with balconies below. Central doorcase under segmental pediment, double(half-glazed) doors with oval tracery to transome light above. Centre three bays behind giant portico of 4 Corinthian columns on plinth with arched passage under, approached up a flight of 22 steps. Dentilled pediment with coat of arms in tympaneum and paterae in freize. Return fronts: 7 bays with central 3 bay brick dormers to roof on stone brackets across centre three windows of first floor, central window in pedimented surround. Ground floor centre window in balconied, half Ionic columned surround with segmental pediment over. Rear: 4 fluted giant pilasters to centre 3 bays, triangular pediment above. Rusticated triple arched terrace to centre of ground floor with curved flights of stairs to ends and wrought iron balustrade. Interior: Entrance Hall- rectangular with inset oval ceiling and triglyph freize on 8 red scagliola Doric columns, oval patterned stone floor. Square, oblong and oval relief panels over doors and niches, oval relief of the "Forge of Vulcan" in the marble fire- place surround. Anthemion freize to main, pedimented, doorcase. Staircase hall- square with double arched screen to left. 2 storys, arched niches to first floor. 6 panelled doors in moulded surrounds, geometric freize to first floor. Drawing room- Gilt palmette door surrounds to panelled doors, niches on left hand wall. Dado panelling with white and green stone fireplace, Ionic ¾ columns flanking with freize over. The White Room- Dado panelling, plasterwork panels to walls and delicate low relief ceiling plasterwork with central rose and garlanded urns. The Gold Room (Library)- Gilt anthemion freize to bookcases and ceiling. Fine scroll plasterwork in panelled ceiling, white marble fireplace. Blue Room- coved ceiling with fan and foliage plasterwork, carved and moulded door surrour Assembly Room (The Great Drawing Room):Deep coved ceiling with scroll freize, divided into three with central oval, fielded panels to walls. Original fireplace with two end caryatids. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) ppl6O-1. SUMMERSON. J. :ARCHITIIITURE IN BRITAIN 1530-1830. p457. DOWNES J.K. : ENGLISH BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE (1966) p84.

Listing NGR: TQ1342863328

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

Legacy System number:: 286686
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Downes, K, English Baroque Architecture, (1966)
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
Summerson, J , Architecture in Britain 1530-1830, (1970), 457
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.