Darby House
DARBY HOUSE, LOWER HAMPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295014
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Darby House
- Statutory Address:
- DARBY HOUSE, LOWER HAMPTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295014
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Darby House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DARBY HOUSE, LOWER HAMPTON 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:
- DARBY HOUSE, LOWER HAMPTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Spelthorne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1151568998
Details
TQ 16 NW
4/42
11/9/51
SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, FORMER UD
LOWER HAMPTON ROAD
Sunbury
Darby House
GV
II
House. Mid C18. Brown/yellow brick with rendered dressings on front, hipped
slate roof. Two storeys on front over basement, basement taller to rear as
ground slopes down to the river. Rectangular plan, 5 x 3 bays, with extensions
to the right. Entrance front:- basement plinth below, plat band over ground
floor and to eaves, below panelled and part-balustraded parapet. Multiple
stacks to right of centre under stone cornice top, further stacks on extension.
Five bays, the centre three in pedimented break with keyed round panel in
tympanum over stone sill on corbel brackets. Twelve pane, glazing-bar sash
fenestration with stone sills and gauged brick heads. Five windows on first
floor, 4 on the ground floor. Central door of 6-fielded panels in stone architrave
surround and under a pediment supported by volute scroll brackets. Front flight of
seven steps with iron hand-rails on arch over basement storey. Single-bay link set
back to right to two storey wing with two glazing-bar sash windows on each floor,
including casement. C20 door of 6-panels approached up a flight of steps in ground
floor of link bay. Right hand return front:- colourwashed and with blocked windows
in set back flanking bays. Rear:- facing river - rendered plat bands and roundels
in parapets of outer bays. Oval panel to centre part of parapet. Three bays,
centre one bowed, with Gothic arched plate sash fenestration in moulded architrave
surrounds; sills below on corbelled brackets. Some glazing-bars in first floor
window to left. Five windows on first and ground floors, that on bow with casements
doors approached by a flight of stone steps. Left hand return front:-
central Gothic arched head window with decorative glazing on first floor, dropping
down through plat bands. Blocked window to right on ground floor, decoratively
glazed window to left. Gauged brick roundels flanking first floor window with low
relief classical busts.
Interior:- Panelled shutters to windows, fluted column screen wall to ground floor
room to rear right. Some low relief plaster panels on walls, moulded cornices
and panelling on stairs. Turned baluster staircase.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.470
Listing NGR: TQ1151568998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288014
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 470
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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