The Thunder House and Attached Garden Wall Running Approximately 15 Metres South to Munstead Orchard and Approximately 135 Metres to South East to Quadrangle
THE THUNDER HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH TO MUNSTEAD ORCHARD AND APPROXIMATELY 135 METRES TO SOUTH EAST TO QUADRANGLE, HEATH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189776
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Thunder House and Attached Garden Wall Running Approximately 15 Metres South to Munstead Orchard and Approximately 135 Metres to South East to Quadrangle
- Statutory Address:
- THE THUNDER HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH TO MUNSTEAD ORCHARD AND APPROXIMATELY 135 METRES TO SOUTH EAST TO QUADRANGLE, HEATH LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189776
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Thunder House and Attached Garden Wall Running Approximately 15 Metres South to Munstead Orchard and Approximately 135 Metres to South East to Quadrangle
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE THUNDER HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH TO MUNSTEAD ORCHARD AND APPROXIMATELY 135 METRES TO SOUTH EAST TO QUADRANGLE, HEATH LANE
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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 THUNDER HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH TO MUNSTEAD ORCHARD AND APPROXIMATELY 135 METRES TO SOUTH EAST TO QUADRANGLE, HEATH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Godalming
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 97989 42857
Details
SU 9742 & SU 94 SE
16/44 & 2/44
GODALMING,
HEATH LANE (south-west side),
The Thunder House and attached garden wall running approx 15 metres south to Munstead Orchard and approx,135 metres to south-east to Quadrangle
11.9.87
GV II
Garden house and attached garden wall. 1895. By E Lutyens for Gertrude Jekyll. Bargate rubblestone with brick dressings. Plain tile roof to garden house. Garden house of triangular plan and 1-2 storeys with curving stone stair up to viewing level on garden (south) front, on left and archways to ground; other sides have openings now weatherboarded on west; coved eaves band below oversailing hipped roof, the north angle of the building flanked by angled buttresses. The garden wall has projecting rounded coping; it returns to Munstead Orchard (q.v.) to south and the south-east along Heath Lane where it is approx. 3 metres high and ramps down from the Thunder House and up again to terminate in Quadrangle (q.v.,formerly Miss Jekyll's potting sheds, now house); there is a round-arched doorway with studded board door next to the Thunder House and a rear entrance to Munstead Orchard; other inserted entrances and doorway next to Quadrangle. The Thunder House is situated at what was originally the end of Miss Jekyll's garden, and was used by her to observe thunder. The garden is listed as Grade I in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (part 40, Surrey). Waverley Borough Council, Lutyens in Waverley p.3.
Listing NGR: SU9798942857
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 291379
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Lutyens in Waverley, ()
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 40 Surrey,
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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