Laleham Abbey
LALEHAM ABBEY, ABBEY DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187014
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Laleham Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- LALEHAM ABBEY, ABBEY DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187014
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Laleham Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- LALEHAM ABBEY, ABBEY DRIVE
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:
- LALEHAM ABBEY, ABBEY DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Spelthorne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 05216 68194
Details
In the entry for ABBEY DRIVE Laleham 11/3 Lalelam Abbey
the item shall include the previous listing date:- 25.11.57
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ABBEY DRIVE 1. 5390 Laleham Laleham Abbey TQ 0568 11/3 II*
2. 1803-06, Architect J. B. Papworth for second Earl of Lucan. Altered (by Papworth) in 1820s and 1830s. Two storeys on basement, stucco 2:1:2 bays with altered sash windows; moulded cill strings, ground floor with brackets to windows. Greek fret cornice; blocking course, returned. Central bay has a Greek Doric portico with paired columns, steps to perron and half glazed door with enriched cornice. Above is a tripartite window with brackets to mullions flanked by T-plan pilasters with conical rainwater heads. Basement screened by solid wall with moulded coping. Solid verandah to south, 5 window return and modern chapel extension to south-east in matching style. Rear has 2:3:2 windows with wide central bow with glazing bar sashes and flanking flat pilasters. Interior: main feature is Thorvaldsen's frieze of Alexander's Triumph (copied from one in the Quirinale) which is in the stair hall. This is a D-plan top-lit area with cantilevered stone stairs and a massive fireplace below the frieze, on either side of which are lobbies to dining room and drawing room. These and the library retain much of the original plasterwork and fittings eg Greaco- classical fireplace in apse in dining room. The house is entered through a segmental barrel vaulted hall with 4 Ionic scagliola columns and angled side walls. See VCH Middlesex Vol II p 397.
Listing NGR: TQ0521668194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 363201
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cockburn, J S, King, H P F, McDonnell, K G T, The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex, (1976), 397
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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