Thorncroft House

Thorncroft House, Thorncroft Drive, Leatherhead, KT22 8JD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378211
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: Thorncroft House
Statutory Address:: Thorncroft House, Thorncroft Drive, Leatherhead, KT22 8JD

Double fronted House with 7ft arched Windows on ground floor. Large black front door with original Georgian fanlight. — Uploaded by Elizabeth Black This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378211
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: Thorncroft House
Statutory Address 1:: Thorncroft House, Thorncroft Drive, Leatherhead, KT22 8JD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Thorncroft House, Thorncroft Drive, Leatherhead, KT22 8JD

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 16500 55790

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/07/2020

TQ/15/NE 3/168 LEATHERHEAD THORNCROFT DRIVE (south side) Thorncroft House

(Formerly listed as Thorncroft Cottage)

GV II House. Early C19; altered. Brick in Flemish bond, now painted cream; slate roof. Rectangular single-depth plan with lean-to and wing added to rear. Two storeys and five bays, symmetrical, the three-bay centre breaking forward slightly, with an impost band to the whole ground floor, and a first floor sill-band to the centre; the wide segmental-headed doorway, protected by a light wooden porch with keyed semi-elliptical arches and flat roof, has a panelled door with glazed top panels and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars; the ground floor has round-headed sashed windows with radiating glazing bars (except that at the right-hand end, which is a casement) set in recessed round-headed arches linked by an impost band; the first floor has a square panel in the centre (presumably for a plaque), and cross-window casements (presumably altered). Dentilled eaves; hipped roof of shallow pitch, with a chimney at the front offset right of centre (probably added), and end-wall chimneys. High wall of former walled garden attached at right-hand corner. Rear not of special interest.

Interior: reeded architraves to doors.

Listing NGR: TQ1650155793

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 290565
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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