Description

CHARLTON KINGS

SO92SE ASHLEY ROAD
630-1/2/2 (West side)
14/12/83 Charlton Manor

II

House. 1864, with later addition to left return. Possibly by
Henry Dangerfield, Borough Engineer, for Charles Andrews
(speculator). Stone rubble laid 'crazily' with ashlar
dressings, ornately tiled roof and ashlar stacks with
cornices; range to left has mock timber-framing and render.
'Horrid' Gothic in 2 parts.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with stepped and
barge-boarded gables over. Chamfered plinth. First floor:
oriel window to centre between mullioned and transomed windows
with relieving arches. Ground floor: central entrance in porch
with double pointed, part-glazed doors between sidelights,
cusped windows to sides of porch and pointed plank door within
in chamfered surround. 3-light mullioned and transomed windows
to either side of porch, those to right with cusped upper
lights under relieving arches. 2 gable return.
Left return has jettied extension, mullion and transom
windows. Angled bay at angle with original part. Projecting
octagonal bay to left linking with former billiard room.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Battledown Estate was laid out in 1858 by
Henry Dangerfield, Borough Engineer. Charlton Manor,
originally known as Simla Lodge, was the first house to be
built and occupied on the Estate.
(O'Connor DA: Battledown The Story of a Victorian Estate.:
Stroud: 1992-: 74-5, 86).

Listing NGR: SO9667121629

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666234

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey