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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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189776
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-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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Date:: 1999-09-26
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1189776
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-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.

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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:: 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

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.