Tigbourne Court
TIGBOURNE COURT, PETWORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1240229
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Tigbourne Court
- Statutory Address:
- TIGBOURNE COURT, PETWORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1240229
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tigbourne Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- TIGBOURNE COURT, PETWORTH 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:
- TIGBOURNE COURT, PETWORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hambledon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 95675 37910
Details
SU 93NE HAMBLEDON C.P. PETWORTH ROAD Wormley
9/151 Tigbourne Court 9/3/60 (Formerly Listed in Witley C.P.)
GV I
House. 1899-1901 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Sir Edgar Horne in a C17 vernacular classical style; billiard room added to roar in 1910 by Horace Farquharson. Galleted Bargate stone blocks with brick quoins and thin horizontal bands of tiles running across the house, under plain tiled roofs. Central triple gabled range with single storey wings projecting from ends, ending in massive coupled chimneys flanked by curved, screen walls. Three storey central range with triple gables and front stack to right. Brick dressed two-light leaded casements in top floor, one to each gable, with three finely detailed "cross" windows below under brick open pediments, segmental outer pediments and triangular central pediment. Doric portico in antis to ground floor with paired columns and end pilasters. Central door behind. Paired diagonal brick stacks to ends of single storey flanking walls. Concave screen walls to ends with hipped ends over piers to tiled pentice coping. Arched door to centre. Single light square windows to either side and egg shaped panel over. Right hand return front:- double gables to left with leaded attic windows and large stone-mullioned,eight-light windows to first floor. One eight-light and one 12-light window to ground floor. Stone panel to first floor between the gables, over round arched door. Single storey range to right with square bay under hipped roof. Left hand return front:- Large gable to centre. Single storey Billiard Room to left. Rear:- Block to left with three windows to first floor and two arches to ground floor. Single storey corridor across centre with large gable behind. Hipped roof range to right with large brick stack. Interior:- Original plan had the central loggia entrance opening into the centre of a long narrow hall running from side to side. Central stairwell with single flight return stair, an adaptation of a design by Norman Shaw. Columned on upper flight and turned balusters. Barrel vaulted front room to left with Ionic pilaster screen. Doric columns flank the fireplace under a panelled overmantel. Stone flagged floor in hall with panelled ceiling containing a central foliage & fruit roundel.
PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p.486-7.
Listing NGR: SU9567537910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438349
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 486-7
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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