Description

TQ 15SW EFFINGHAM C.P. BEECH LANE

6/74 Effingham House
14/6/67 (Formerly listed
under Guildford Road)

II

House, now club house. Centre portion early C19 with Victorian side wings (c.1880)
added to ends, minor C20 alterations to rear. Whitewashed stucco to centre with
pebbledash claddings to side wings; hipped slate roofs obscured by parapets. 2
storeys; wings lower and set back.
Central portion: 4 window range with glazing bar sash fenestration, thin glazing
bars intact, in C19 shutters. 3 windows to ground floor with double, half-glazed
doors to right of centre in plaster-strip surround and under flat hood. Flat
roofed, modillioned,Ionic style portico across the ground floor on two columns
and plaster pier responds.
End wings: Each 3 bays, in an irregular arrangement. Left hand wing with giant
pilasters to corners supporting cornice parapet. Two glazing bar sash windows on
each floor between the pilasters, further linking bay set back slightly to right.
Right hand wing: Similar arrangement of two windows between giant pilasters; and
linking bay set back slightly. Square bay windows to ground floor.
Extensive service wings to rear.
Interior: Entrance hall: decorated ceiling and early C19 staircase with turned
balusters and ramped handrail. Other features surviving include plaster cornices,
moulded dado's and panelling and decorated door surrounds; although restored.

Listing NGR: TQ1183653246

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26483467

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)