Great Fosters
Great Fosters, Stroude Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1294166
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Great Fosters
- Statutory Address:
- Great Fosters, Stroude Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1294166
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Great Fosters
- Statutory Address 1:
- Great Fosters, Stroude 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:
- Great Fosters, Stroude Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Runnymede (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ0131369697
Details
TQ 06 NW
4/77A
EGHAM
STROUDE ROAD
Great Fosters
11.7.51
GV
I
Large house now used as hotel, circa 1550-1600. Red brick with stone dressings, clay tile roofs. Carefully restored and altered. Mainly three storeys.
Entrance front: centre bay contains porch and two storeys over with gable end. Octagonal buttress towers at corners terminating in a finial, with similar finial on apex of gable. Doorcase semicircular headed, with fluted Doric pilasters on pedestals. The entablature with triglyphs is taken round the porch as a band course. First floor, eight-light leaded casement with similar three-light casement on second floor. Between entablature and first floor cill, pair of pilasters enclosing coat of arms with strapwork motifs at sides. At each end a shallow projecting three storey wing with gables and pinnacles and with similar gables between wings.
West wing: ground floor, fourteen-light casement. First floor ten-light casement, second floor four-light casement. In recess to left is on ground floor eight-light, first floor eight-light and second floor four-light casements.
East wing: ground and first floors splay sided bay window with two-light casement in splays and eight-light casement in front. Bay window capped by a pierced balustrade of woven strapwork ornament. Second floor four-light casements. Three similar windows in recess to right. To right of main facade, four storey wing with four windows. To right, two storey wing with two windows. Hexagonal lantern with ogee lead roof and wrought iron weathervane. Corner pilasters and two light leaded casement window in each side. Single and multiple groups of brick diagonal chimney stacks with moulded brick corners and oversailing cappings. To west of main building a complex of two and single storey wings.
Garden elevation of complex of some ten different facets with gables, mainly of three storeys. Stone casement windows, bays etc all as details of front elevation.
Interior: entrance hall, three bays fully panelled. In west bay carved wood fireplace, Composite columns, flat entablature supporting four recesses with ornate carving and figures. Centre bay has full height bay window with stone transoms and mullions and leaded lights. East bay plain panelling. All ceilings have a heavy relief strapwork pattern. In centre bay a massive entrance door with porch. Full height linen fold panelling and ceiling of square wood panels. Stone door case and four centred arch with Tudor rose and Portcullis in spandrels. Stone paving.
Listing NGR: TQ0131369697
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 289755
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 226
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 40 Surrey,
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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