Grey Wings
GREY WINGS, THE WARREN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391240
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Grey Wings
- Statutory Address:
- GREY WINGS, THE WARREN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391240
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Grey Wings
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREY WINGS, THE WARREN
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:
- GREY WINGS, THE WARREN
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 18611 57252
Details
LEATHERHEAD
1293/0/10012 THE WARREN 02-SEP-05 ASHTEAD GREY WINGS
II
1293/0/10012 THE WARREN 07-JAN-05 Ashtead Grey Wings
II House. 1913. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in collaboration with his brother Adrian Gilbert Scott for £1000. Classical style with Neo Grec Art Deco detailing. Stuccoed with tiled mansard roof and rendered chimneystacks. One storey and attics.Butterfly plan. Circa 1981 two conservatories were added to the south without damaging the original fabric. EXTERIOR: The north or entrance front is of five bays with multipane casement windows. Dormers include central oval window and end elongated windows. Ground floor windows include two end canted bays. Banded cornice and plinth. Central double doorcase with panelled door. Attached walls on east and west link to garaging and utility rooms and have cast and wrought iron gates. The south or garden front is curved to take advantage of the sun with four dormers and central elongated staircase window with Art Deco detailing. The ground floor has two curved conservatories with conical tiled roofs, multipane windows and central double doors added in a matching style c1981. The side elevations are set at an angle with two storey canted bay windows with multipane casements and further curved sections linking to the north front with a further window on each side. INTERIOR: Cast iron and frosted glass internal lobby doors open into a staircase-hall containing a staircase with square newel posts and wooden handrail but iron balustrading with diaper patterns and central classical style bosses with round-heqqded niche below. The ground floor has two principal rooms, a double Drawing Room to the west and a Dining Room to the east with adjoining kitchen. The Dining Room retains a moulded cornice and marble surround and hearth although the bolection-moulded wooden fireplace has gone. The Drawing Room retains a moulded cornice and the marble interior to the fireplace. Original flush doors survive on both floors. HISTORY: The house cost £1000 originally. Although the records do not survive, a partner at the firm recalled Sir Giles and his bother working on the commission and it may have been built as a private job.
An early and rare private house commission designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and his brother surviving with little alteration.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492168
- 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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