VERNON HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1258122
Date first listed: 26-Apr-1950
Statutory Address: VERNON HOUSE, 28, WEST STREET
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Location
Statutory Address: VERNON HOUSE, 28, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Surrey
District: Waverley (District Authority)
Parish: Farnham
National Grid Reference: SU 83673 46711
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SU 8346 NE 5/81
26.4.50
1099
WEST STREET
(South East side)
No. 28 (Vernon House)
II*
C16 altered C18 and later. U-shaped street front of 2 storeys. Rendered. Projecting plinth. Plain wall face carried up to parapet with stone coping. Hipped old tile roof. Flanking wings, shortened in C18, each with 2 windows on 1st floor, 2 windows on ground floor. In centre wing, 3 windows and 1 small window above; 2 windows and 1 small window below. 6-panel central door with panel reveal and doorcase of fluted Doric engaged columns, entablature broken forward over columns and pediment. One segmental stone doorstep. 2 cast lead rainwater heads in angles with date of 1727 probably indicate completion of rebuilding of courtyard, new windows and doors. Original C16 stepped brick chimneys on west side of west wing. The south front unsymmetrical with 2-storey segmental bow to left hand. Charles I slept here at Vernon House on his way to trial, 20th December 1648 (plaque on west wing). Within, walls are partly panelled in oak. C16 to C17 tempera wall painting in upper North-West room. (See N Temple, "Farnham Buildings and People" Page 153).
Nos 18, 37, 43, 45 and all the listed buildings on the south-east side from Nos 19 to 46 (consec) (including wrought iron screen before Vernon House), form a group.
Listing NGR: SU8366246715
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 444388
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Temple, N, Farnham Buildings and People153
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing