The Tortoise House, Wotton House
THE TORTOISE HOUSE, WOTTON HOUSE, GUILDFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189835
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Tortoise House, Wotton House
- Statutory Address:
- THE TORTOISE HOUSE, WOTTON HOUSE, GUILDFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189835
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- The Tortoise House, Wotton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TORTOISE HOUSE, WOTTON HOUSE, GUILDFORD 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 TORTOISE HOUSE, WOTTON HOUSE, GUILDFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wotton
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 12060 46921
Details
WOTTON C.P. GUILDFORD ROAD TQ 14NW Wotton Park
4/121 The Tortoise House 7/2/72 Wotton House
GV II
Tortoise house. Circa 1820-30. Portland stone, rubblestone and brick with wooden superstructure and tiled roof. Rectangular. Two storeys. Ionic garden temple of four bays by two with three Ionic columns to sides and Ionic pilaster piers to ends supporting architrave frieze and cornice. Upper storey with open sides divided into bays by thin wooden piers with attached Corinthian pilasters. Flat roof over with overhanging eaves. The upper floor of the house appears to have been used as viewing platform for the tortoises which lived in a pool in the front of the temple. Now in ruinous and near roofless condition. One of the items mentioned in the Gardens of Wotton House included in the "Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England: Part 40 Surrey" at Grade II*. PEVSNER: Buildings of England (1971) Surrey p.544. LUCINDA LAMBTON: Beastly Buildings (1985) P.
Listing NGR: TQ1206046921
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290084
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lambton, L, Beastly Buildings, (1985)
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 544
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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