Description

SU 94SE BUSBRIDGE C.P. HASCOMBE ROAD

4/102 High Barn
2/7/71
II

House. 1902 by Sir Robert Lorimer for the Hon. Stuart Playdell Bouverie with
additions of 1926 by Walter Godfrey. Coursed Bargate stone block with tile-on-
edge dressings and plain tiled roofs, wept out to eaves. Rectangular main
block with parallel projecting rectangular ranges to front, lower wing canted at
45 degree angle to rear left. Two storeys with attics on main house, single
storey and attics to service ranges and wing to left. Corbelled,cross-ridge
stacks, one to centre of each front range, two on main house and two on side
wing. Entrance front:- Recessed centre range with projecting ranges to either
side. Left hand range with three wood framed, leaded casements on the first
floor, one through-eaves flat roofed dormer, and one attic casement under large
gable. The majority of windows under tile-on-edge lintels, 5 across the ground,
floor with the- centre ones mullioned and transomed. Right hand range with
irregular fenestration. One between-floors window to left, and one small case-
ment on each floor of hip-roofed,square projection to right. Angle bay window
in splayed sided recess to left with continuous mullioned and transomed leaded
fenestration on both floors and lead apron between decorated with heraldic devices.
Central recessed bay:- projecting break to middle under scrolled and shaped pediment
with tile-on-edge quoining. Small segmental mouldings on eaves parapet to either
side, and horizontal tile bands below. One leaded,mullioned and transome window
to either side on each floor, and central stone panel to first floor with heraldic
devices. Egg shaped leaded attic window on gable with "sunburst" pattern of
radiating bands of tile-on-edge decoration. Arched double doors to centre in
smooth ashlar surround and under tile-on-edge decorated head. Right hand return
front:- hipped roof to left with gablet, hip extending out over first floor
wooden balcony on four braces. Rear return wall has angle bay with lead apron,
dated 1902, between upper and lower windows. Arched entrance below. Rear
elevation - battering angle buttress to left, double arched porch recess to
ground floor on return wall and rear wall. Square bay under hip roof to left of
centre. Windows to right under tile-on-edge lintels. Wing canted to side with
one keel-shaped gable to rear and two on front of service range. The house shows
the strong influence of Lutyen's houses in Munstead, a mile away.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.304.

Listing NGR: SU9904340566

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533035

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)