Pit House
PIT HOUSE, CHEAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214537
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Pit House
- Statutory Address:
- PIT HOUSE, CHEAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214537
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Pit House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PIT HOUSE, CHEAM 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:
- PIT HOUSE, CHEAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Epsom and Ewell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ2222062338
Details
EWELL
1.
1086
TQ 2262
22/303
30.4.73
CHEAM ROAD
(West Side)
Pit House
II
2.
Early or mid-C18. Altered and extended in early C19, and extended further
in mid-C19.
Elevation to Cheam Road is masked by part of the early C19 extensions.
2 2 storey stucco wings with no windows, flanking 1 storey top-lit vestibule,
entered through a stucco doorway with Tuscan pilasters and entablature.
On garden side main block is stucco. 2 storey. Parapet. 3 ranges of
early C19 sashes with glazing bars, central one tripartite. 3 French
windows on ground floor with Gothick glazing bars. Early C19 red brick
extension to south east. 2 storeys. Pitched slate roof. 2 bays, of
which 1 breaks forward, has door on ground floor, round arched sash with
glazing bars on 1st floor and parapet to roof. Other bay has segmental
bow with sashes and glazing bars on ground floor and semi-circular relieving
arch above this framing. 1 casement with glazing bars. South east elevation
of this block has a 1st floor canted bay with sashes and glazing bars,
projecting over garden on 2 iron columns. Mid C19 red brick, 2 storey
extension to NW. Internal joinery nearly all early C19.
Listing NGR: TQ2222062338
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399386
- 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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