Long Copse

LONG COPSE, PITCH HILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352769
Date first listed:
28-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Long Copse
Statutory Address:
LONG COPSE, PITCH HILL ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352769
Date first listed:
28-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Long Copse
Statutory Address 1:
LONG COPSE, PITCH HILL 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.

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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:
LONG COPSE, PITCH HILL ROAD

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

County:
Surrey
District:
Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:
Ewhurst
National Grid Reference:
TQ0812542073

Details

TQ 04 SE
2/207

EWHURST C.P.
PITCH HILL ROAD
Long Copse

GV
II

House. 1897 by Alfred Powell of the Artworkers' Guild in rustic style. Bargate
sandstone blocks and rubblestone with thatched roofs under ridge decorations and
with 'bonnet' ends. T-shaped plan. L-shaped on entrance front. Single storey
with attics under 'eyebrow' dormers and gable ends. Square brick stack at
junction of ranges. Leaded casement fenestration with stone-framed windows on
ends of wings to left. One 2-light casement window on return wall of wing,
dormer window to left of re-entrant angle, one dormer to right. Ground floor
recessed to right with two 2-light casement windows. Door to left in angle of
two ranges and further door to right in chamfered surround. Left hand return
front:- Three 'eyebrow' dormers and rounded gabled bay to right of centre. One
large 5-light leaded window to ground floor left. Horsham slab roofed wing
projecting to left with hipped dormer and side stack. Glazed-in recess to right,
pentice extension in catslide to left.
Interior:- Original doors and fitted furnishings, wooden lintels to fireplaces
and wooden floors, designed by Ernest Gimson.

N. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.227
M. CAMINO: GIMSON AND THE BARNSLEYS: Wonderful Furniture of the Commonplace
Kind (1980).

Listing NGR: TQ0812542073

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
291849
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Comino, M, Gimson and the Barnsleys, (1980)
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 227

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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