THE RED HOUSE

THE RED HOUSE, FRITH HILL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1044519
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: THE RED HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE RED HOUSE, FRITH HILL ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1044519
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: THE RED HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE RED HOUSE, FRITH HILL ROAD

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:: THE RED HOUSE, FRITH HILL ROAD

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:: Godalming
National Grid Reference:: SU 96782 44977

Details

GODALMING FRITH HILL ROAD SU 94 SE (west side) 2/99 The Red House 23.2.70 - II*

House. 1899. By Edwin Lutyens. For Rev W H Evans. Red brick in Flemish bond; plain tile roof. Square on plan, built around central stair and into hill slope giving 2 storeys on north-east (entrance) elevation, 3 storeys on returns and 4 storeys on south-west (garden) elevation. 4 x 3 bays. Leaded-light windows with wood frames and mullions; corniced multiple flue stacks. Principal, garden (south-west), elevation: bay 1 narrow with 2-light window to 1st and 2nd floors. Bay 3 wide with round-arched board door on right of lowest floor (into garden room); window of 4 lights to left on ground floor, 6 lights with tile dripmould to 1st floor, 2 lights with dripmould on right between 1st and 2nd floors and 6 lights to 2nd floor. Projecting, polygonal, asymmetrical towers to bays 2 and 4, that on right having 2-light window to lowest floor and continuous windows above wrapping round corners; that on right having, on ground floor, 2 lights returned from window on left return, and continuous windows above. Stacks at ends and between bays 1 and 2. Rear (entrance) elevation: flight of brick steps down to central panelled door with side-lights under bracketed canopy with a 2-light window either side and 4 above, all with tile dripmoulds; parapet with cyma-moulded coping; hipped roof with tall end stacks. South-east return: central bay has doorways to both ground and 1st floors: on ground floor the door is fronted by triple-chamfered segmental-arched porch with splayed reveals and parapet on which stand columns supporting the hipped roof porch which protects the two lst-floor doors; brick steps rise from the lower porch to the upper porch; the doors are all I-glazed with small-pane glazing; the lower door has a side-light; on 1st floor the left door has a 2-light side-light, the right door has a 3-light window to right; on 2nd floor a window of 4 lights to left, 3 lights to right, slightly stepped down. To left of porch is broad external stack with offset near top; similarly offset, lateral stack at right corner. Left bay has a 2-light window on each floor including one to lower ground floor which has a moulded brick surround and mullion and timber lintel; on left are the ends of the wrap-around tower windows; panelled parapet. North-west return: central board door; asymmetrically-placed windows, mostly of 4 lights, some with elliptical relieving arches with tiled tympana; 4-bay outbuilding range projecting on right with 2 board doors and 3-light windows. Interior: the major feature is the central, open-well, wooden stair, with closed string, diagonally-set balusters, square newels with vase type finials and traces of original leaf-trail painting on handrail; stair lit by coved top light with columns supporting cornice. South-east side has principal rooms, that on ground floor having wide chimney-piece with giant, tripartite keystone and side pilasters to fireplace; side niches with impost and keystone bands; and cornice on floating capitals. Former butler's pantry on lower ground floor retains wall cupboards. This is an early seminal work by Lutyens. Rev Evans was a retired housemaster from the nearby Charterhouse School (q.v. Item 2/146). G Stamp, The English House 1860-1914 (The Flowering of English Domestic Architecture), 1986, pp 100-101.

Listing NGR: SU9676844984

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Legacy System number:: 291373
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Stamp, G, Goulancourt, A, The English House 1860-1914 The Flowering of English Domestic Architecture, (1986), 100-101

Legal

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