Quadrangle and Attached Garden Walls to South and East

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GODALMING HEATH LANE SU 94SE (south side) 2/102 Quadrangle and attached garden walls to south 16.11.88 and east(formerly listed as walls to south west) - II

Potting sheds and garden outbuildings to Munstead Wood (q.v. Busbridge CP, item 106), now house and outbuildings, with attached garden walls. Dated 1891 and 1901, by E Lutyens for Gertrude Jekyll; converted to house 1950s. Bargate rubblestone brought to course, weatherboard, and tile-hung; plain tile roofs. Courtyard plan open at north-east corner with wall attached to south-west corner approx 25 metres in length, and by gateway to north-east corner, running along- side Heath Lane for approx 20 metres. One storey, part with attic, and 2 storeys. Board doors with wooden lintels; windows wood-framed and mullioned mostly with rectangular-leaded casements; hipped-roofed dormers. Courtyard elevations:- main cross-range (south range) is a barn-like building, now part of house, of weatherboard, 1 storey, with double door on right, two small-pane windows to left, pump set against wall with lead spout and wooden handle, roof hipped to left. Range projecting on right (east range), now house, one storey with attic, is tile-hung on left where formerly it was open-fronted and had a double door, now with one window; the rest is of rubblestone with, at right end, wide entrance with curved timber lintel to canted internal porch having door on left and datestone "GJ 1909"; to left of porch, tall cross-window rising as dormer with a small window to left, an inserted stone-lintelled 3-light window further left and beyond that a dormer. Range projecting on left (west range) is a barn-like building of weatherboard, 2 storeys, having central and end doorways, that on left to internal porch and between this and central door a window; on 1st floor a former doorway to left, now window rising as dormer, with a long window below eaves to right, another dormer further right and an 8-pane, 2-light casement window beyond; rainwater head on right dated "GJ 1891"; roof half-hipped with end stacks. Closing courtyard on north side is small, weather- boarded outbuilding with gabled roof. Rear elevations: east range (along Heath Road) has 5 stone-lintelled windows with door between right-hand windows and another to gable end of south range. At left end is gateway and then tall rubblestone wall with domed top. West range: flight of stone steps up to lst-floor door with arch under landing; long 1st-floor windows; garden wall projecting from left (south-west) end ramps up over archway at end nearest building. North range: a round-arched doorway to "mushroom shed" with water tank over. The item is important in being part of the group of buildings at Munstead Wood designed by Lutyens, and particularly in its function as Gertrude Jekyll's potting shed, since it was as a gardener that Miss Jekyll made her name. The garden is listed Grade I in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest (Part 40, Surrey). Waverley Borough Council, Lutyens in Waverley.

Listing NGR: SU9812042798

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Sources

Books and journals
Lutyens in Waverley, ()

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 40 Surrey,

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