MERRIST WOOD HOUSE

MERRIST WOOD HOUSE, COOMBE LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1377731
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: MERRIST WOOD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MERRIST WOOD HOUSE, COOMBE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1377731
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: MERRIST WOOD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MERRIST WOOD HOUSE, COOMBE 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:: MERRIST WOOD HOUSE, COOMBE LANE

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:: Worplesdon
National Grid Reference:: SU 96152 53455

Details

SU 95SE WORPLESDON C.P. COOMBE LANE

5/140 Merrist Wood House 14.6.67 (formerly listed as Merrist Wood Hall) GV II

Country House, now Agricultural College. Designed 1875, built 1876-7, rebuilt after fire in 1978, by Richard Norman Shaw for Charles Peyto Shrubb. Snecked Bargate stone below with ashlar dressings, tile hung on first floor left, close-stud half timber to first floor centre and right. Hipped plain tiled roofs. 2 storeys, first floor jettied on moulded bressumer with attics in gables and under two pentice roof, leaded casement, dormers to left. Quadruple ridge stack to left, larger ridge stack with corbelled top to left of centre, large stack to front right on stone plinth with ribbed brick shaft and corbelled top. 2 bays set back to left with two 5-light, hexagonal pattern leaded casement windows under tiled, penticed, hoods on first floor. Two 2-light stone dressed, leaded casements on ground floor with one 4-light mullioned and transomed window. 2 projecting 4-light leaded casement windows on first floor left of entrance with flanking, single light casement. 3 windows below in a similar arrangement, 2 stone dressed, one wood framed. 2 single light casements to ground floor right in the base of the stack, one larger window to right end. Projecting 3 storey gabled porch to right of centre, braced on first floor with heavily moulded bressumer over ground floor. Continuous 6-light window across width of second and first floors. Arched entrance to ground floor with heavy bracing to posts and timber sides, brick infilled. Square panelled doors.

Right hand return front: large, angle-bay hall window. Rear: Projecting range to right, tile hung across first floor. Leaded fenestration and tall stacks.

Interior: Great Hall: restored in 1978 back to full height. Timber framed, three bays with Crown-post roof. Panelled walls with billet decoration along top. Minstrels gallery at one end with turned ballusters.

C20 extensions to left not included.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp 540-1 ANDREW SAINT : Richard Norman Shaw (Yale 1976) pp 82,94,110,113,129,164,194,416. Plan p 112. Ills. - 65,68, and 93. RIBA - Drawings for Merrist Wood House by Norman Shaw.

Listing NGR: SU9615253455

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Legacy System number:: 288204
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 540-541
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976), 82 94 110
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976), 112 113
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976), 129 164
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976), 194 416

Legal

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