68-74 and 76 and 78 Petworth Road
68-74, PETWORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244421
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 68-74 and 76 and 78 Petworth Road
- Statutory Address:
- 68-74, PETWORTH ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00494/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244421
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 68-74 and 76 and 78 Petworth Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 68-74, PETWORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- 76 AND 78, 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:
- 68-74, PETWORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 76 AND 78, PETWORTH 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:
- SU9143832492
Details
1.
5393
SU 93 SW
10/140
3.12.53
PETWORTH ROAD
(North Side)
Almshouse Common
Nos 68 to 74 (even)
(Formerly listed as Nos 68, 72 and 74)
Nos 76 and 78
II
GV
2.
Row of Almshouses built in 1676 with C19 restoration and additions. [Nos 76 and
78 are C19 reproductions]. Two storeys, 5 and 2 windows. Red brick with some
blue headers in English bond. Tiled roofs with tall chimneys. Casement windows
with C19 chamfered brick surrounds and mullions. Label mouldings over ground floor
windows and doors which have 4-centred heads. C19 paired porches with wood columns
and tiled roofs. Restored inscription:
THE TOLLE HOUSE. Erected in ye Yeare 1676 for the Habitation of decayed
inhabitants of the neighbour borough out of the proffits of the Tolle of the
Markett of the said Borough. By the care and oversight of James Gresham Esq.
Listing NGR: SU9143832492
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 449435
- 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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