The Watts Gallery
The Watts Gallery, Down Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188403
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Watts Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- The Watts Gallery, Down Lane
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188403
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Watts Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Watts Gallery, Down 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.
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 Watts Gallery, Down Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 95849 47807
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 February 2024 to correct a typo in the name, address and description and to reformat the text to current standards
SU 94 NE
3/67
COMPTON C.P.
DOWN LANE
The Watts Gallery
4.6.75
II*
Gallery and house. Built 1903-4 by C. Hatton Turnor to contain the paintings and sculpture of George Frederick Watts. Roughcast cladding with tile on edge dressings. Plain tiled roofs, hipped to right end, flat over central gallery. Central gallery enclosed by half H-shaped portion with gable ends to south, L-shaped ranges to ends - connected to main range by two arched loggias. Two storeys to ends and one storey to centre. Corbelled square stacks with tile on edge decoration to tops on rear left and rear right of right hand wing. Casement fenestration leaded to right. One first floor window to each end, two ground floor windows to left, and one to right. Round arched loggias with tile on edge impost blocks connecting to gables either side of centre. Round arched panels to ground floor of gabled bay, with tile on edge keystones linking with roundels above. Over and around central flat roof are eight small gables containing lunette windows, two facing east, four facing south and two facing west. Doors to curator's house on east end behind loggia and to gallery on west end behind identical loggia.
Listed mainly for historical interest.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p 170.
Listing NGR: SU9584947807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288324
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 170
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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