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Royal Horticultural Society Offices, Wisley Gardens

A Grade II Listed Building in Wisley, Surrey

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3139 / 51°18'50"N

Longitude: -0.4729 / 0°28'22"W

OS Eastings: 506529

OS Northings: 158307

OS Grid: TQ065583

Mapcode National: GBR 1M.5FC

Mapcode Global: VHFV9.R7CL

Plus Code: 9C3X8G7G+HV

Entry Name: Royal Horticultural Society Offices, Wisley Gardens

Listing Date: 25 November 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1189118

English Heritage Legacy ID: 288849

ID on this website: 101189118

Location: Royal Horticultural Society's Garden, Elm Corner, Guildford, Surrey, GU23

County: Surrey

District: Guildford

Civil Parish: Wisley

Traditional County: Surrey

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Surrey

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Description


TQ 05NE WISLEY C.P. WISLEY LANE

2/267 Royal Horticultural
Society Offices,
Wisley Gardens

II

Offices. 1914 by Imrie and Angell in picturesque Vernacular style. Brown brick
plinths, timber framed above with render infilling, some decorative brick and tile
infilling and weatherboard cladding to projecting bays, plain tiled roofs, hipped
and stepping down to ends. Two storeys and attics under two, hipped roof, leaded,
casement dormers. Massive stacks; one square end stack to left, decorative half-
octagonal end stacks flanking central square stack on ridge plinth to left of centre
with further stack to centre and a fine front stack to right with offsets to right
side and four round shafts under offset tops. One arched panel on shaft of stack.
2 casement windows to first floor right, one either side of stack, and one mullioned
and transomed window to ground floor in wooden frame. Large, two storey, hipped
roof projecting bay to right of centre with continuous mullioned and transomed
glazing on the first and ground floors, the upper lights diamond-paned and continuing
on return fronts of the first floor. Similar hipped bay projecting to left. Two
first floor and one large, 7-light, ground floor windows between left hand bay and
the central, gabled, entrance bay. Mullioned and transomed leaded casement on first
floor over arched panelled door on ground floor in splay-sided brick surround under
a 5-step, arched head. Lower range to left end with one 6-light and one tall, narrow,
9-light (3 x 3) window to first floor over two, 4-light, ground floor windows.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p.529.


Listing NGR: TQ0652958307

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