Chinthurst Hill
Chinthurst Hill, Chinthurst Lane, Wonersh, GU5 0QH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260635
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Chinthurst Hill
- Statutory Address:
- Chinthurst Hill, Chinthurst Lane, Wonersh, GU5 0QH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260635
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Chinthurst Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- Chinthurst Hill, Chinthurst Lane, Wonersh, GU5 0QH
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:
- Chinthurst Hill, Chinthurst Lane, Wonersh, GU5 0QH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wonersh
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 01301 45644
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 April 2024 to update the name and address, amend description due to change of building use and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 04NW
1/337
WONERSH C.P.
CHINTHURST LANE
Chinthurst Hill
(Formerly listed as Chinthurst Hill, Close House and the Gatehouse)
3/5/73
II
House, divided at time of listing. 1893-5 by Sir Edwin Lutyens originally for Miss Guthrie, in Tudor style with garden terraces laid out by Gertrude Jekyll. Bargate stone block with tile-on-edge and ashlar dressings, plain tiled roofs with tile hung gables. Roughly L-shaped plan with wing projecting to left. Built on hillside site, ground dropping away to terraced gardens across the rear. Mainly two storeys with very large dominant ridge stacks of red and grey bricks under corbelled tops, some stacks with round arched panelling and projecting tile-on-edge imposts to corner piers.
Entrance front: large gable set back to right with one stone-dressed, three-light mullioned leaded casement window to first floor with sill string course to left. One continuous window to ground floor left of two and three lights with panelled mullion between. One three-light stone dressed, leaded casement each floor left of centre under pentice extension of main roof and tile hung gable. Gabled loft door, studded, and placed diagonally across the re-entrant angle with the projecting wing. Door to ground floor in splayed reveal and under arch below. Two storey gabled porch to right of centre with tile-on-edge band across base of gable and ashlar kneelers above. One four-light window to first floor over square panel and diamond plaque. Tudor style arched entrance to ground floor of porch, barrel-vaulted inside with tile-on-edge bands. Studded and ribbed door with original lock plate and handle. Gable end of projecting wing to left, one three-light window on each floor. Hipped end roof with tile-on-edge eaves over through-way to left. Further throughway to left with braced posts. Hipped roof wing with two-light leaded window to end.
Garden Front: three storeys with projecting wing to left. Square bay on end and offset buttress to right. Stone dressed leaded fenestration with windows continuing around the corner on the first and ground floors. To the right of the wing are two round-headed arches rising through the ground and first floors with Gothic windows in their heads which light the hall. Splay sided depressed arches to ground floor with buttress between. Projecting square bay under hipped roof to right of centre. Single storey range to right.
Interior: half-timbered staircase, Tudor style Great Hall and arched vaulted corridors on first floor.
One of Lutyens earliest designs.
Listing NGR: TQ0130145644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440087
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 537
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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