Burwood House Convent of Notre Dame School

BURWOOD HOUSE, CONVENT LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1030207
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Burwood House Convent of Notre Dame School
Statutory Address:
BURWOOD HOUSE, CONVENT LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1030207
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Burwood House Convent of Notre Dame School
Statutory Address 1:
BURWOOD HOUSE, CONVENT LANE
Statutory Address 2:
CONVENT OF NOTRE DAME SCHOOL, CONVENT LANE

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BURWOOD HOUSE, CONVENT LANE
Statutory Address:
CONVENT OF NOTRE DAME SCHOOL, CONVENT LANE

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 09823 61498

Details

TQ 06SE BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE CONVENT LANE

Cobham

4/125 Burwood House (Convent of Notre Dame school)

II

Country house, now school. Late C18 with C19 alterations and additions. Incised render to main block , yellow stock brick to wing. Hipped slate roofs with end stacks. Rectangular main block with projecting wing to left forming courtyard in front. 2 storeys , 3 bays. Glazing bar sash windows across first floor, 2 bay wing projecting to right. Double glazed doors to left under proch hood on two Doric columns. two bay range set back to left with dentilled eaves and glazing bar sash windows. Projecting wing to left: 8 bays , 3 bays to right of pedimented break, with glazing bar sash windows under gauged heads across the first floor. Double glazed doors in arched opening to centre of pedimented break. Right hand return front. 2 storeys with glazing bar sash fenestration, cambered heads to ground floor windows. Recessed terrace to left behind 4 Doric columns on pedestals. Relief panel of "Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs" to centre of first floor. Garden front: Dentilled eaves with battlemented parapets above. 3 angle bays to left 1 storey, flat edged, stone conservatory (now cloak-room) to right of centre, 4 Doric columns with full height, glazed panels between.

Listing NGR: TQ0982361498

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
286695
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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