ASHTEAD PARK FARM HOUSE

ASHTEAD PARK FARM HOUSE, FARM LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1294698
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: ASHTEAD PARK FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ASHTEAD PARK FARM HOUSE, FARM LANE

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Date:: 2002-08-10
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1294698
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: ASHTEAD PARK FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ASHTEAD PARK FARM HOUSE, FARM LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ASHTEAD PARK FARM HOUSE, FARM LANE

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 19544 58657

Details

ASHTEAD FARM LANE TQ 1858-1958 (east side) 7/26 7.9.51 Ashtead Park Farm House GV II*

House. Rebuilt following fire c.1730; altered. Red handmade brick with some burnt headers, red tiled roof; tops of chimneys recently rebuilt in modern brick of similar colour. L-plan formed by single-depth main range with service wing to rear of left end and stair-turret in angle. Three storeys and 6 bays (part over cellar), almost symmetrical; 3-course band over ground floor, moulded wooden string course over 1st floor, dentilled eaves band and prominent bracketed cornice. The doorway in the 3rd bay has a shouldered architrave, pulvinated frieze, bracketed cornice, and door with 6 fielded panels; the 5 windows at ground floor have C19 12-pane horned sashes with exposed boxes and gauged brick heads, but the 6 windows at 1st floor have unhorned 12-pane sashes with thick glazing bars; the 2nd floor has 2-light casements with leaded glazing; and there are 2 segmental-headed cellar windows to the right of the door. Hipped 2- span roof with rectangular ridge; extruded side-wall chimney stacks at both ends. Rear: main range has 12-pane sash at 1st floor and 2-light casement above; stair-turret has cross-windows on 2 levels; wing has 12-pane sashes on 2 levels; large modern conservatory added in angle with stair-turret; continued to rear of wing is single-storey former dairy altered as sitting room. Interior: panelled entrance hall with 2 chamfered axial ceiling beams; to the left of this, dining room with full-height fielded panelling; open-well staircase with open string, 3 bobbin balusters per tread, columnar newels, broad ramped handrail and large wreathed curtail, but one flight of the top stage is C17 type with closed string and stout turned balusters. Garden wall: approx. 6 metres in front of house, in similar material, square gatepiers on axis of front door with pineapple finials, wrought-iron gate with twisted overthrow; similar gateway to left.

Listing NGR: TQ1954458657

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Legacy System number:: 290409
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.