High Chimneys
High Chimneys, Westwood Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380298
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- High Chimneys
- Statutory Address:
- High Chimneys, Westwood Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380298
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- High Chimneys
- Statutory Address 1:
- High Chimneys, Westwood 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.
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:
- High Chimneys, Westwood Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Surrey Heath (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Windlesham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 94256 65237
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 December 2022 to reformat the text to current standards
SU 96 NW
282/1/10014
WINDLESHAM
High Chimneys
09-MAY-00
II
House, now flats. Circa 1910 by Charles E Mallows for Captain and Mrs Macgildowny; converted to flats, mid-C20; further alterations late-20. Thin red brick in English bond with tile dressings; swept plain-tile roofs with tile corbels and brick stacks. Rectangular plan with entrance on north side and former service wing to north-west; garden elevation on east side.
Two storeys and attic. In Arts and Crafts style, having: circular tile and stone steps up to entrance; nail-studded and strap-hinged board main entrance door; small-pane leaded glazing to other doors; pegged wood-framed mullion windows, of two to seven lights, with leaded metal casements and tile sills and dripmoulds; first-floor windows mostly set under eaves; complex roofscape having gabled, hipped and half-hipped roofs to individual bays and hipped-roofed, tile-hung, dormers; tall chimneys with clustered flues and corbelled heads.
North (entrance) elevation: four bays with lower former-service wing projecting on right. Paired projecting central bays have entrance on left, set in deep, round-arched, hollow-moulded, quoined reveal; transomed stair window on right. East (garden) elevation: four bays. The wide outer bays project, are of two storeys, gabled, and have internal porches at inner corners; four-leaf French window under pentice across centre bays flanked by large external chimneys which have offsets and small windows on their inner returns at attic level. South elevation: 2 + 4 bays. On right, the lower four-bay block has paired two-storey central bays with continuous seven-light (former living-room) window to ground floor; end-bay of loggia on left.
Interior: round-arched strap-hinged wooden doors (ground floor) and board doors with moulded cover strips, all with original door furniture. Windows retain original decorative fittings and tile sills, those of principal ground-floor rooms with polished stone sills. Original fireplaces, including inglenook to former living room with Tudor-arched inner stone fireplace; and lunette-shaped fireplace with corbelled mantlepiece and over-cupboard to former dining room (both in flat no. 1). Chamfered beams and original cupboards and shelves in principal rooms on ground floor. Open-well stair with open, trellised, balustrade with chamfered members, and large-scantling newel posts.
Listing NGR: SU9425765242
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480229
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gray, A S, Edwardian Architecture A Biographical Dictionary, (1985)
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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