Tanhurst
TANHURST, TANHURST LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294023
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Tanhurst
- Statutory Address:
- TANHURST, TANHURST LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294023
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Tanhurst
- Statutory Address 1:
- TANHURST, TANHURST LANE
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:
- TANHURST, TANHURST LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wotton
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 12828 42889
Details
In the entry for:
TQ 14SW WOTTON TANHURST LANE Leith Hill
6/137 Tanhurst
11/11/66 II
the sentence "Single storey tile hung and brick extensions to rear with slate roofs and corbelled stacks not of special interest" is to be deleted from the list description.
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WOTTON C.P. TANHURST LANE TQ 14SW Leith Hill
6/137 Tanhurst 11/11/66 II
House. Late C18 extended to rear in C19. Whitewashed brick with rendered angle quoins and wooden modillion eaves cornice, hipped plain-tiled roof. Two storeys and attic on plinth with rear stacks to right and left. Plat band over ground floor and plat band over first floor. Five bays wide with 6 pane glazing-bar sash windows in attic storey, five 12-pane glazing bar sashes to first floor and four to ground floor, all under painted gauged brick heads. Central half-glazed door in Doric pilaster/pier portico with triangular pediment above with modillions and pulvinated frieze. Three bay C19 extension to right. Single storey tile hung and brick extensions to rear with slate roofs and corbelled stacks not of special interest. Left hand return front - round headed windows on ground and first floors and large bay of three windows to west. Interior - good staircase. Home of Sir Samuel Romilly, Law Reformer for some years until his death in 1818.
Listing NGR: TQ1282842889
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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