Old Swaynes Farm House
OLD SWAYNES FARM HOUSE, SMALLS HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287040
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Swaynes Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SWAYNES FARM HOUSE, SMALLS HILL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287040
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Swaynes Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SWAYNES FARM HOUSE, SMALLS HILL 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:
- OLD SWAYNES FARM HOUSE, SMALLS HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leigh
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 23213 46284
Details
LEIGH C.P. SMALLS HILL ROAD TQ 24 NW 6/148 Old Swaynes Farm House 30.7.86 II
House. C16, possibly with earlier origins, with C17 and C18 extensions. Timber framed with whitewashed brick and render infilling on ends and across rear. Whitewashed render on entrance front. Parallel range plain tiled roofs, C20, with half-hip ends to entrance range. House of 2 builds, parallel and staggered. 2 storeys, with offset end stack to right and rebuilt stack to left. C20 leaded casement fenestration with 4 windows on the first floor, 3 windows below. Half-glazed C19 door to left of centre in gabled, boarded, porch with braced posts. Right hand return front (gable end) - half-glazed pentice extension across ground floor, gunstock main post to eaves right. Gable end of parallel range set back to right. Rear elevation:- 3 framed bays of modest scantling. 2 windows on first floor, one window below. Half-glazed door to right of centre under pentice hood on braces. Interior:- Frame exposed with gunstock main posts on first floor of rear range. Splat baluster balustrade incorporated into wall in hallway. Further details of timber frame and raking queen post and crown post roof trusses given in DBRG Report. (Surrey Domestic Building Research Group, Report No 3376.) The house was reputedly the home of Ben Jonson.
Listing NGR: TQ2321346284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290262
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Domestic Buildings Research Group Surrey Report in Report Number 3376, ()
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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