STABLE BLOCK WITLEY PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334377
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: STABLE BLOCK WITLEY PARK
Statutory Address:: STABLE BLOCK WITLEY PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334377
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: STABLE BLOCK WITLEY PARK
Statutory Address 1:: STABLE BLOCK WITLEY PARK

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:: STABLE BLOCK WITLEY PARK

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:: Witley and Milford
National Grid Reference:: SU9257739613

Details

SU 93NW WITLEY C.P. WITLEY PARK

8/323 Stable Block, Witley Park

II

Stable block, originally to Lea House, now part cottages. 1896 by H. Paxton- Watson in Free Tudor style. Snecked sandstone with restored plain tiled roofs and tile hung casement dormers. Rectangular plan of 4 ranges around central cobbled courtyard. Single storey ranges with two stage entrance tower to North side. North Range - Entrance Elevation:- Projecting gable end to left with stable door under transome light to ground floor right. One 6-light cambered head window above. Domed turret on angle of roof with 4 windowed range to left of central, 2-stage tower. 4-light casement window to centre gable, diagonal leaded oriel window below in square panel and on keystone over arched central throughway between flanking buttresses. Stone bay to right of gateway with chamfered angle squinch. Two stacks on range to right of tower with irregular casement fenestration below including three 4-light windows, one 3-light and one 8-light mullioned and transomed window. Bullseye window to left of centre. North Range - Courtyard Elevation:- Two stacks on range to left of tower with flat roofed dormer between double gable to left of tower with one 4-light casement to each on the first floor, four mullioned and transomed windows below. Two doors to ground floor left and one arched door to right, adjacent to the tower. Two storey tower to centre buttressed on lowest stage flanking arched throughway with double panelled doors. One 4-light window above and a single window in a deep reveal to the gable apex. Range to right of tower with stable doors and central door under transome light. East Range - Courtyard Elevation:- Domed turrets to corners. Large gable to centre with central loft door in flanking lights. Rounded D-section ashlar piers below either side of centre with stable dears between. South Range - Courtyard Elevation:- Single storey with end mullioned and transomed windows. Large door to left of centre and two mullioned windows. Further door between two arched and panelled doors in chequerwork frontispieces with eyebrow hoods supported on battering buttresses.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.531.

Listing NGR: SU9257739613

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 439891
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 531

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.