Munstead House
MUNSTEAD HOUSE, MUNSTEAD HEATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240170
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Munstead House
- Statutory Address:
- MUNSTEAD HOUSE, MUNSTEAD HEATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240170
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Munstead House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUNSTEAD HOUSE, MUNSTEAD HEATH 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:
- MUNSTEAD HOUSE, MUNSTEAD HEATH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Munstead and Tuesley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 98524 42621
Details
SU 94SE BUSBRIDGE C.P. MUNSTEAD HEATH ROAD
4/110 Munstead House 3/5/73 II
House. 1877-8 by J. J. Stevenson for Gertrude Jekyll and her mother, drawing room remodelled by Lutyens in c.1900. Coursed and snecked sandstone block with ashlar dressings, plain tiled and machine tiled roofs. Two storeys to left, one storey and attics to centre and two storeys and attic to gable bay to right. Single storey extensions to right. End ridge stack to left and front stacks to left and right. Entrance front:- Basement plinth to front, gabled bay projecting to right hand end. Irregular glazing-bar sash fenestration. Two windows under the eaves to first floor left, three windows across the ground floor. Three through- eaves,sash dormers to centre range under gable/pediments with two between-floors sashes, lighting staircase, to left. One ground floor sash window under cornice hood to right. Two attic windows to gable on projecting range to right with one sash window on each floor below, both under cornice hoods and with moulded sills. Door of six panels to left of centre under transome light of ten panes, smooth ashlar panel over. Flat hood to base of transome light over door on fluted scroll brackets and 5 steps to front. C20 extensions to left. Lutyens extensions set back to right. Garden Front:- Main range to right with two square bays and alternating recesses. Wood cornices to bays and two sashes to each floor on each bay. One sash between bays on each floor. Lower range set back to left with wooden square bay to centre. "Venetian" window to first floor of bay and tripartite plate glass sash window below. Hip roofed single storey range to left with arched double doors and keystoned surrounds. Upper attic floor now removed and stacks truncated. Interior:- Jacobean fireplace designed and built by G. Jekyll. Sir Herbert Jekyll carved original Dining Room decoration.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.377.
Listing NGR: SU9852442621
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438220
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 377
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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