Grayswood House

GRAYSWOOD HOUSE, LOWER ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244180
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
Grayswood House
Statutory Address:
GRAYSWOOD HOUSE, LOWER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244180
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
Grayswood House
Statutory Address 1:
GRAYSWOOD HOUSE, LOWER 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GRAYSWOOD HOUSE, LOWER ROAD

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

County:
Surrey
District:
Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:
Haslemere
National Grid Reference:
SU 91896 34582

Details

LOWER ROAD 1. 5393 (North Side) Grayswood Grayswood House SU 93 SW 10/13 II 2. Early C19 house with added Victorian range. Main garden front of 2 storeys, 5 windows. Red brick with stone-coped parapet. Gauged flat brick arches to recessed sash windows with glazing bars. Possibly later projecting one-storey porch has stone cornice and parapet; and impost string from round-arched opening with patterned fanlight and later door. On right return a one-storey round bow. Parallel rear range circa 1860, 2 storeys, 3 wide bays with an attic window under central gable. Red brick with blue headers, diagonal brick cornice, steep tiled roof. Sash windows, glazing bars above, margin lights below; and one long casement. Small right extension of malmstone rubble. Grayswood House was the home of Mrs Humphrey Ward the novelist.

Listing NGR: SU9190634585

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
449012
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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