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:
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- Reference:
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- 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
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:
- 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
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 April 2026 to amend details in the description and to reformat text to current standards
SU 94 SE
2/99
GODALMING
FRITH HILL ROAD (west side)
The Red House
23.2.70
II*
House. 1899. By Edwin Lutyens. For Rev Henry James Evans. Red brick in Flemish bond; plain tile roof. Square on plan, built around central stair and into hill slope giving two storeys on north-east (entrance) elevation, three storeys on returns and four 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 one narrow with two-light window to first and second floors. Bay three wide with round-arched board door on right of lowest floor (into garden room); window of four lights to left on ground floor, six lights with tile dripmould to first floor, two lights with dripmould on right between first and second floors and six lights to second floor. Projecting, polygonal, asymmetrical towers to bays two and four, that on right having two-light window to lowest floor and continuous windows above wrapping round corners; that on right having, on ground floor, two lights returned from window on left return, and continuous windows above. Stacks at ends and between bays one and two.
Rear (entrance) elevation: flight of brick steps down to central panelled door with side-lights under bracketed canopy with a two-light window either side and four 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 first 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 first-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 first floor the left door has a two-light side-light, the right door has a three-light window to right; on second floor a window of four lights to left, three 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 two-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 four lights, some with elliptical relieving arches with tiled tympana; four-bay outbuilding range projecting on right with two board doors and three-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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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