Puttenham Priory

PUTTENHAM PRIORY, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1294505
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1957
List Entry Name:
Puttenham Priory
Statutory Address:
PUTTENHAM PRIORY, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1294505
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1957
List Entry Name:
Puttenham Priory
Statutory Address 1:
PUTTENHAM PRIORY, THE STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PUTTENHAM PRIORY, THE STREET

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

County:
Surrey
District:
Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:
Puttenham
National Grid Reference:
SU 93334 47818

Details

SU 94NW PUTTENHAM C.P. THE STREET (south side)

8/98 Puttenham Priory 19.2.57.

II*

Country House. 1762 for Thomas Parker, with C20 extensions to rear. Colourwashed stucco with hipped slate roofs. Two storeys and attic over basement with multiple stack to rear. Symmetrical Palladian front of 5 bays the central three bays in pedimented break. Plinth to basement, plat band over ground floor and full entablature over first floor. Attic above with 4 glazing bar sash windows and ball finials on pier pedestals. End pilasters and piers with four attached colums supporting central pediment containing roundel window. Adamesque capitals to columns, i.e., fluted with vestigial leaves to bottom. Glazing bar sash windows throughout in architrave surrounds. Double panel doors to centre in Ionic column surround, under open pediment with traceried fanlight. Central flight of six steps up to doors.

Right hand return front: projecting square bay to left, set back range to right tower in re-entrant angle between two ranges. one glazing bar sash window, tripartite, on each floor to left. Larger tripartite window to centre with Doric and Ionic columned divides between lights. Verandah to ground floor left.

Interior: Much altered. Staircase hall with iron balustrade to stairs leading to landing above. Doric columns below with Ionic columns on landing.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY. (1971) p 417.

Listing NGR: SU9333447818

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Legacy System number:
288162
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 417

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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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