The Durdans
THE DURDANS, CHALK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378221
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Durdans
- Statutory Address:
- THE DURDANS, CHALK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378221
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Durdans
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DURDANS, CHALK LANE
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:
- THE DURDANS, CHALK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Epsom and Ewell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 20780 59452
Details
EPSOM 1. 1086 CHALK LANE (West Side) The Durdans TQ 2059 34/86 10.1.74. II*
2. 1764. Architect William Newton. Altered in C19, possibly by George Devey. Red brick. Pitched slate roof. 2 storeys. Moulded stone cornice and balustrade. Principal front has 2 - 3 - 2 windows with C19 stone mullions and transoms. Centre 3 bays break forward slightly. Neo-Georgian porch in centre of ground floor. Garden front similar, but central 3 bays are canted. End elevations have 2 ranges of windows under coped gable end, in which is set 1 semi-circular lunette. 2 cartouches in south end. 1 reads "Chs. Dalbiac Restt. 1764 Wm. Newton Art",. and the other "SG. Sibyllae Amicisque 1929-55". Interior retains at least 2 original chimney pieces to Newton's designs (drawings in R I B A Collection), of which the better has a depressed arch with a keystone, surmounted by a marble bas-relief and flanked by detached Ionic columns. Original house was built by Lord Berkeley in the mid C17, and its appearance suggests that it was as advanced in taste as his more famous town house in Piccadilly. Its subsequent owners included the 2nd Duke of Argyll (in 1708), The Earl of Guilford (in 17ll), and Frederick, Prince of Wales. It was pulled down and the present house built for Charles Dalbiac. In the late C19 it was the seat of the Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister and owner of several Derby winners.
Listing NGR: TQ2078059452
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290627
- 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.
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