Stable block at the Home of Compassion

Stable block known as The Priory, Home of Compassion, 58, High Street, Thames Ditton, KT7 OTS

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A late C18 purpose-built stable block, converted into residential accommodation after 1905. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190713
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: Stable block at the Home of Compassion
Statutory Address:: Stable block known as The Priory, Home of Compassion, 58, High Street, Thames Ditton, KT7 OTS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190713
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Jun-2014
List Entry Name:: Stable block at the Home of Compassion
Statutory Address 1:: Stable block known as The Priory, Home of Compassion, 58, High Street, Thames Ditton, KT7 OTS

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:: Stable block known as The Priory, Home of Compassion, 58, High Street, Thames Ditton, KT7 OTS

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Elmbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ1615467158

Summary

A late C18 purpose-built stable block, converted into residential accommodation after 1905.

Reasons for Designation

The late C18 stable block (known as The Priory) at the Home of Compassion is listed Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Date: information about the date of the clock mechanism suggests the building is probably late C18 in date; * Architectural interest: a large purpose-built stable range to a country house; * Group value: group value with the Grade II* Home of Compassion.

History

The stable block was built circa 1786 for the Hon. Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham (1738-1790), widow of the Hon. Captain Robert Boyle Walsingham, at about the same time as the construction of the main house, which was originally named Boyle Farm. The clock movement, housed below the roof cupola is dated 1792 with the maker's name 'John Grant of Fleet Street' cast into the metal frame.

In 1905 the property, including the stables, was sold to the Church of England Community of the Compassion of Jesus, renamed and dedicated as the Home of Compassion in the same year. The stables, later renamed 'The Priory', were converted into staff quarters for a nursing home which was housed in the main house.

Details

Former stable block. Circa 1786 with clock mechanism dated 1792. Architect not at present identified. Adapted into residential accommodation after 1905.

MATERIALS: stock brick in Flemish bond with a hipped slate roof, three brick chimneystacks and a wide dentilled and bracketed wooden eaves cornice. Slate and wooden clock tower and cupola.

PLAN: rectangular plan, of two storeys, in seven bays to the entrance front and three bays to the ends, with a central clock tower with a cupola. Internally there was originally stabling on the ground floor with a hayloft and accommodation above.

EXTERIOR: the principal front faces south-east. It is symmetrical in seven bays with a central clock tower with a splayed base clad in slate, on which is a clock face in a wooden pedimented surround. Above is an open wooden cupola, square on plan, which contains a bell and is surmounted by a domed wooden cupola under a gilded weathervane. The ground floor has a blind arcade of round-headed gauged brick arches containing flat-arched leaded casement windows. The first floor has sash windows with glazing bars under gauged heads and a central loading door.

In the centre is a ribbed, planked door under a pointed arched head and glazed paired doors to either end. The ends are of three bays. The rear or north-west elevation is plainer. The ground floor has a central oculus and two triple leaded light windows. The first floor has nine leaded light windows; a raised brick band separates the storeys.

INTERIOR: the clock mechanism is dated 1792 with the maker's name, John Grant of Fleet Street. The central wooden staircase is late C19 or early C20 with triple stick balusters set diagonally.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 286771
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.