Primrose Cottage

PRIMROSE COTTAGE, RUSS HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1248503
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:
Primrose Cottage
Statutory Address:
PRIMROSE COTTAGE, RUSS HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1248503
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:
Primrose Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
PRIMROSE COTTAGE, RUSS HILL

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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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:
PRIMROSE COTTAGE, RUSS HILL

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

County:
Surrey
District:
Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Charlwood
National Grid Reference:
TQ 23789 41012

Details

RUSS HILL 1. 5387 (west side) Primrose Cottage TQ 2341 4/46 13.3.73 II

2. Probably early C16 open hall-house with C17 addition of one bay. The original house was of one storey with hall of one bay and service. Later a solar was inserted upstairs. Now 2 storeys. Timber-framed with modern brick infilling. The original house has long sagging passing braces. The C17 addition is of square framing. Horsham slab roof, the north end tiled, with gablet to original part and half-hip to C17 bay. C17 brick chimney stack. Three casement windows. Simple crown post roof to original hall-house and side purlin roof to C17 addition. Ingle nook hearth. The bread oven extends into the garden at the rear. (See Domestic Buildings Research Group Report No 2. Joan M Harding "Four Centuries of Charlwood Rouses" p 70).

Listing NGR: TQ2378641014

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430138
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Sources

Books and journals
Harding, JM, Four Centuries of Charlwood Houses, (), 70
Domestic Buildings Research Group Report in Report Number 2, ()

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Primrose Cottage

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