The Hermitage
THE HERMITAGE, 193, LOWER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189144
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage
- Statutory Address:
- THE HERMITAGE, 193, LOWER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189144
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Hermitage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HERMITAGE, 193, LOWER 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 HERMITAGE, 193, LOWER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 13582 54653
Details
GREAT BOOKHAM LOWER ROAD TQ 1354 NE (south side) 14/98
7.9.51 No.193 (The Hermitage)
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House. Probably late C17, with C19 additions and alterations. Hand-made brick and some flint, mostly covered by roughcast painted white, plus some weatherboarding at the rear; brick chimneys. Shallow U-plan formed by a 3-unit single-depth main range with an extension at each end, and projecting wings added to the front of both. Two storeys and 5 bays; plinth to the main range; a 2-storey flat-roofed porch in the re-entrant angle to the right with C19 hoodmoulds over both the doorway and a 12-pane sashed window above; to the left, the ground floor has a 12-pane sashed window breaking the plinth in the centre, with a similar hoodmould, and a canted bay window to the left of this; the 1st floor has two 12-pane sashes. Each wing has a canted bay window at ground floor and a 12-pane sash above. Ridge chimney and gable chimneys, all with cornices. The rear has a ground-floor loggia supporting a weather-boarded corridor added to the 1st floor; the ground floor has a plinth incorporating some flint, a central doorway and two 12-pane sashes; the added upper floor has two 16-pane sashes; the 1st bay of the addition at the east end projects and has a small segmental-headed window on each floor; the end bay has a dormer, and a square weather-boarded outbuilding with pyramidal roof overlaps it. Interior: altered, but the 3-bay roof of the main range has 4 sets of collar trusses, the 1st and 4th close to gable walls of modern brick, and coupled rafters with scratched carpenter's marks; the joists are tenoned into a central purlin and have carpenter's marks in Roman numerals. History: Fanny Burney is said to have lived here c.1790-1800.
Listing NGR: TQ1357754648
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290490
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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