HEATHERSETT LITTLEWORTH CROSS

HEATHERSETT, SEALE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294453
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: HEATHERSETT LITTLEWORTH CROSS
Statutory Address:: HEATHERSETT, SEALE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294453
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: HEATHERSETT LITTLEWORTH CROSS
Statutory Address 1:: HEATHERSETT, SEALE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: LITTLEWORTH CROSS, SEALE ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HEATHERSETT, SEALE ROAD
Statutory Address:: LITTLEWORTH CROSS, SEALE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:: Seale and Sands
National Grid Reference:: SU 89692 45757

Details

SU 84NE SEALE AND SANDS C.P. SEALE ROAD

7/114 Littleworth Cross and Heathersett

II

House, now divided. Dated 1873 on main entrance, extended in C20. Rubble stone with brick dressings and quoins to ground floor, decorative half-timbering in black and white to right and left ends on first floor. Plain tiled roofs of varying heights, some hipped, all with ridge cresting and end finials. Complicated compact plan, roughly T shaped with entrance court to front. Two storeys with tall, ribbed, stacks, all with oversailing tops; some on gable ends, the majority on roof ridges. Entrance Front : Divided in two, right half: parrallel gable ranges to right, range at right angles to left enclosing square tower with pyramidal roof under compass finial. Diamond pane, leaded, casement fenestration, irregular, but including one large mullioned and transomed staircase window to left of centre. Gabled, wood framed, half-glazed entrance porch to right placed diagonally across the corner of the building. Recessed, whitewashed lobby behind. Main door in rear wall, arched, whitewashed brick surround, strap - work hinges with incised decoration. Left half; large tile hung gable to right over brick dentil band, half timbered range to left jetted on first floor over moulded bressumer. 3 diamond-pane casements on both floors to left, wood framed, mullioned and transome window on first floor gable. Six panelled door to ground floor of gable under flat porch hood. C20 brick single storey extension projecting to front right. Interior : Square staircase hall, part panelled. Great hall to rear, originally 2 framed bays with Crown-post roof, only one bay remaining. Large billeted, cambered, tie beam exposed framing and panelling below. Large stone fireplace dated 1886. Y tracery glazed doors. The house has been attributed to R. Norman Shaw on stylistic grounds but there is no conclusive evidence to prove the attribution. PEVSNER : Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) page 449.

Listing NGR: SU8969245757

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 288174
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
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.