Burles Burles Cottage
BURLES COTTAGE, LOWER OLD PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378312
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Burles Burles Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BURLES COTTAGE, LOWER OLD PARK
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378312
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Burles Burles Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURLES COTTAGE, LOWER OLD PARK
- Statutory Address 2:
- BURLES, LOWER OLD PARK
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:
- BURLES COTTAGE, LOWER OLD PARK
- Statutory Address:
- BURLES, LOWER OLD PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Farnham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 81615 47188
Details
1099 LOWER OLD PARK Burles and Burles Cottage SU 84 NW 11/351 II
One building. Architect: Harold Falkner. Completed in 1937. The building is based on and built round 2 timber-framed barns from Gloucestershire which Falkner placed end to end. Along the south-east fron the barns form a very long and continuous overhang; timber-framing of post-and-pen construction on the 1st floor overhangs a ground floor of stone rubble and brick. 6 windows on ground floor. Mullioned windows with small leaded lights. Low steeply pitched tile roof wihich at the left hand [south-west] end extends over a cantilevered attic storey in the couth-west gable end. Below this, extending downwards through 1st and ground floors of gable end, a wide spayed bay with mullioned windows and leaded lilghts and 3-centred headed doorway on ground floor. At the right hand end of the south-east front, an adjunct to the mian timber-framed strucutre comprises Burles Cottage wichi projects forward to the south-east. This is also of timber-framed construction above a brick sill. On the oppisite side of Burles Cottage, facing towards the north-east, there are 2 window bays and a 6-panelled door. Along the entrance of the Burles (facing north-west) the rood descends to a much lover level except at the left hand end. Here there are 3 conjoined gables of timber-framed construction with coved cornice above a 1st floor also of timber-framed construction which in turn overhangs a ground floor and basement of brick and stone rubble with battered buttresses of brick. Small mullioned casement windows with leaded lights. Steps lead down to round-headed 6-panelled cellar door. From here to the south-west end of the building, the roof descends much lower; low wall-plate of post-and-pen timbering with continuous leaded lights below eaves; 4-centred headed doorway flanked to wither side by 2-light leaded casements; projection with one tall transomed and mullioned window which projects high into roof space; to right hand again, a further gabled projection to which is attached a very tall panelled chinmey; one other small gable to right hand again, and, at south-western end, a further window bay. Set back along the entrance front there is a stone wall with niches and recesses of baring shape and with a flight of steps leading up to the garden wall behind. In the garden to the south-west of the house, a serives of steps round a semi-circular terrace of stone and flint rubble leads up tp a semi-circular exedra.
Listing NGR: SU8161547188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290982
- 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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