ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OFFICES, WISLEY GARDENS

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OFFICES, WISLEY GARDENS, WISLEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189118
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OFFICES, WISLEY GARDENS
Statutory Address:: ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OFFICES, WISLEY GARDENS, WISLEY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189118
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OFFICES, WISLEY GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OFFICES, WISLEY GARDENS, WISLEY LANE

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:: ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OFFICES, WISLEY GARDENS, WISLEY LANE

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:: Wisley
National Grid Reference:: TQ 06529 58307

Details

TQ 05NE WISLEY C.P. WISLEY LANE

2/267 Royal Horticultural Society Offices, Wisley Gardens

II

Offices. 1914 by Imrie and Angell in picturesque Vernacular style. Brown brick plinths, timber framed above with render infilling, some decorative brick and tile infilling and weatherboard cladding to projecting bays, plain tiled roofs, hipped and stepping down to ends. Two storeys and attics under two, hipped roof, leaded, casement dormers. Massive stacks; one square end stack to left, decorative half- octagonal end stacks flanking central square stack on ridge plinth to left of centre with further stack to centre and a fine front stack to right with offsets to right side and four round shafts under offset tops. One arched panel on shaft of stack. 2 casement windows to first floor right, one either side of stack, and one mullioned and transomed window to ground floor in wooden frame. Large, two storey, hipped roof projecting bay to right of centre with continuous mullioned and transomed glazing on the first and ground floors, the upper lights diamond-paned and continuing on return fronts of the first floor. Similar hipped bay projecting to left. Two first floor and one large, 7-light, ground floor windows between left hand bay and the central, gabled, entrance bay. Mullioned and transomed leaded casement on first floor over arched panelled door on ground floor in splay-sided brick surround under a 5-step, arched head. Lower range to left end with one 6-light and one tall, narrow, 9-light (3 x 3) window to first floor over two, 4-light, ground floor windows.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p.529.

Listing NGR: TQ0652958307

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Legacy System number:: 288849
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 40 Surrey,

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