Maryvale Pastoral Centre
MARYVALE PASTORAL CENTRE, SNOWDENHAM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239973
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Maryvale Pastoral Centre
- Statutory Address:
- MARYVALE PASTORAL CENTRE, SNOWDENHAM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239973
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Maryvale Pastoral Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARYVALE PASTORAL CENTRE, SNOWDENHAM LANE
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:
- MARYVALE PASTORAL CENTRE, SNOWDENHAM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bramley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 99931 44142
Details
SU 94SE BRAMLEY C.P. SNOWDENHAM LANE
4/73 Maryvale Pastoral Centre (Formerly Snowdenham)
II
Country House, now Pastoral Centre. 1886-7 by Ralph Neville with Great Hall modelled by J. Bentley. Sandstone rubble and brick below, tile hung above, some timber framing with render and brick infilling on gables and entrance front. Diaper brick bay to front. Plain tiled roofs. Long rectangular plan with many cross gables, and built into hillside with arched basement storey to garden front. Two storeys with attics in gabled dormers on eaves and in roof and with massive corbelled stacks to ridges and on ends. Entrance front:- irregular casement fenestration, mostly leaded with plain casements to single storey service buildings on left end. Single storey brick and stone porte-cochere to right with moulded plinth and arched openings. Massive double doors in stone chamfered surround. Garden front:- terrace extending out on 8 arches with alternating buttresses. End gable to left with front stack and one window on each floor. Framed gable bay with mullioned and transomed windows on three floors, polygonal bay to left of centre under turret roof. Two large gabled bays to right with projecting angle bays rising through two floors under hipped roof, one with massive hall oriel window containing stained glass. Interior:- Diamond pattern wood parquet floor and panelled ceilings with rosettes and modillion cornices in Jacobethan style rooms to garden front. Room to end left with scroll-capped, fluted pilasters on walls on diamond pattern pedestals. Fine fireplace overmantelwith scroll brackets and fat baluster supports with gadroon type decoration. Pedimented door surrounds. Great Hall:- By J. Bentley, Square panelled ceilings and panelled walls. Gallery to one end with side stair- cases - Jacobethan style. Coved cornice to roof with animal decoration. Ceiling of trefoil section. Deep fireplace recess to one side with panelled gallery over, three bays wide. Chapel-Formerly Library? - panelled, with deep panelled ceiling.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.118 J. FRANKLIN THE GENTLfMAN'S COUNTRY HOUSE.
Listing NGR: SU9993144142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438033
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
Franklin, J, The Gentlemans Country House and its Plan 1835-1914, (1981)
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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