Wayneflete's Tower
WAYNEFLETE'S TOWER, 61, PELHAMS WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1286940
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Wayneflete's Tower
- Statutory Address:
- WAYNEFLETE'S TOWER, 61, PELHAMS WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1286940
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wayneflete's Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAYNEFLETE'S TOWER, 61, PELHAMS WALK
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:
- WAYNEFLETE'S TOWER, 61, PELHAMS WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Elmbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 13079 65103
Details
TQ 16NW BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE PELHAMS WALK
Esher
2/438 No.61.(Wayneflete's 14.8.53. Tower)(Formerly listed under Wayneflete Tower Avenue)
GV I
Former gatehouse to Esher Place. 1475-80, probably by John Cowper for Bishop Waynefleet of Winchester, altered by William Kent for Henry Pelham 1729. Red and blue brick in diaper pattern. Square. 3 storeys with 4 storied polygonal angle turrets, stone string courses between each, on dentilled band to second floor and on arcaded corbel band to turrets. Stone dressings to battlements and window surrounds, 2 quatrefoil leaded casements on top stage of angle turrets,designed by Kent who also remodelled the leaded, ogee arched windows on the lower floors- 3 to each storey. Single, stone ogee arched porch between the turrets with stone crockets to gable and Greek geometric pattern impost blocks to arch-also designed by Kent. C20 panelled door in arched stone surround behind. Interior: Entrance Hall(original gateway) rib-vaulted and stuccoed by Kent, some ceiling and wall decorations survive. Remodelled with some of the earliest examples of Rococo- Gothic. Designs for the work by Kent, dated 1733, survive in R.I.B.A. The now vanished gardens, also designed by Kent, were famous in their day. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp222-3. THOMASON: THE SEASONS.
Listing NGR: TQ1307765101
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286914
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 222-3
Thomason, , The Seasons, ()
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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