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Buildings and Structures of Architectural and Historic Interest

in the Parish of Ewhurst, SurreyCompiled by Janet Balchin

Ewhurst History Society

6th July 2017

CONTENTS

Notable Buildings

Gazetteer

References & Bibliography

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Notable Buildings and Structures

A branch of the Roman road, Stane Street, runs diagonally through almost the whole length of the parish. A tile kiln was discovered and excavated near Coneyhurst Gill in 1923 and a villa was discovered at Rapsley in 1956 and excavated in the 1960s.

The Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul (Grade I) has Early Norman and 13th century work. The tower was rebuilt in 1839, to a design by Robert Ebbels, following the collapse of the earlier tower. The church is approached by a lych-gate from The Mount.

Also on The Mount is the War Memorial, which records the names of the Fallen of the First World War. The Recreation Ground was dedicated as the village War Memorial for the Second World War. A flag-pole and small plinth bears the names of The Fallen. A separate War Memorial for Ellen’s Green is in the Ellen’s Green Memorial Hall. This dates from the First World War, with names from the Second World War added.

Opposite The Mount is the early Victorian village school, opened in 1846. The school is one of the oldest in Surrey still occupying its original building.

Ewhurst Baptist Church, formerly a Congregational chapel was built in 1908 in local stone with leaded light windows.

The parish has a good survival of timber framed buildings dating from the medieval and early modern periods. Many of these have been recorded by the Domestic Buildings Research Group (DBRG). Around 12 hall houses and 17 smoke bay houses have been identified, while several other houses would benefit from more detailed study.

The oldest complete house is probably White Hart House (Grade II*), an important early house dating from around 1420. Although not complete, the hall bays of Hoyle Cottage also indicate an early date. Other houses with traces of earlier builds include Coneyhurst Manor and Old Farm, both of which have early cross wings, although the original halls have been lost.

It is sometimes possible to get an exact date for a building through dendrochronology. Only one house in Ewhurst has been dated this way, Wyndrums, which has been dated to 1571. Occasionally, houses have date stones, such as Wykehurst Farm, where the added cross wing has a stone dated 1691. Dates sometimes relate to particular features such as the window dated 1756 at Wyndrums, but this is the date the window was glazed, not the date the house was built. Documentary evidence shows that many of the settlements in Ewhurst are earlier than the surviving buildings, such as the 16th century farmhouse at Coverwood, which is mentioned in the Pipe Rolls for 1165.

Houses such as the manor houses of Somersbury Manor and Coneyhurst Manor are high status buildings. This is reflected in architectural details such as close studding, decorative braces, jetties etc. Some high status houses are thought to have also had a non-domestic function, such as White Hart which had a solar accessible from the outside by a private stair. In the medieval period the ultimate status symbol was a moat. The former Moated House Farm was abandoned in the early 20th century, but the moat remains intact.

The survival of early houses is an indicator of changes in wealth. In the medieval and Tudor periods the inhabitants were prosperous and houses were well built, but later the economy of the area declined and there was less incentive or available money to rebuild in a more fashionable style.

In addition to the more substantial homes of yeoman farmers, a number of very small houses have been identified, which are of particular interest, as the homes of the poorer members of society are more ephemeral. Small (one open bay and one floored bay) hall houses include Bildens and Oak Cottage, and small smoke bay houses include Mascalls and both Well Cottages.

Some houses are built, or partially built, of the local sandstone. Coxland is a substantial stone house dating from the 17thcentury, built of large semi-coursed blocks. Rumbeams is built from random rubble, which gives a decorative appearance. As the local stone is soft, most stone houses have brick quoins and window surrounds. The south wall of Ivy Cottage is a particularly good example of galleting, where ironstone chips are pressed into the mortar. A number of buildings have roofs of Horsham stone, including The Parish Church, Pipers

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Croft, Little Crown and Hill House Farm. Examples of stone flagged floors can be found at Hillhouse Farm and Maybanks. Horsham stone with fossilized ripples is highly prized for paving as can be seen on the approach to the Parish Church.

Brick was not used much before the 18 th century, except for chimneys. By the 19 th century, brick had become the most popular building material, with clay tiles used for roofing and also for tile hanging on walls. Bricks were made locally at Hones brickworks in Horsham Lane and tiles at Swallow’s tile works.

During the 18th century the area declined because of agricultural recession and consequently the parish has very few fine Georgian buildings. One of the better examples is Maybanks, but this was the home of a prosperous farming family rather than a gentleman’s residence.

The early 19th century saw the beginnings of gentrification. Garlands was remodelled as a cottage ornée in the fashionable picturesque style in the 1830s. The Rectory was remodelled by Robert Ebbels in the gothic style, with decorative gables, pinnacles and cloisters, as illustrated in Brayley’s History of Surrey 1841. At Baynards, the new owner, the Rev. Thurlow, commissioned Thomas Rickman to remodel and extend the Tudor house.

From the 1870s, improved road & rail communications, and a growing appreciation of the wild Surrey landscape, encouraged wealthy people to move into the area. Many commissioned well-known architects to design their new country houses and the south facing slopes of Pitch Hill and Holmbury Hill boast an eclectic mix ranging from grand mansions to Arts & Crafts cottages to exotic villas. Notable Victorian and Edwardian houses include Woolpits by George & Peto, Coneyhurst by Philip Webb, Long Copse by Alfred Hoare Powell (with interior woodwork by Ernest Gimson), Hurtwood Edge by Arthur Bolton, and Coverwood by Gerald Calcott Horsley of the Art Workers Guild. There are two houses by Christopher Turnor - Copse Hill and Hurtwood House; and also two houses by Sir Ernest Newton - Lukyns and High Wykehurst. In the inter-war period Marylands (Grade II*) was designed by the modernist architect Oliver Hill.

The 20thcentury also saw the transformation of several old farms, such as Ellens and Oldhouse, into desirable residences and former farmworkers cottages also became popular, sometimes knocking two cottages into one.

Gardens were an important feature. The grounds at Woolpits were laid out by Edward Kemp. Gertrude Jekyll designed the gardens at Lukyns and corresponded with Powell on the planting of the terrace at Marylands. The terraced gardens at Hurtwood House were influenced by the gardens of Monserrate at Sintra. The planting at Coverwood Lakes is an important collection of rhododendrons and azaleas.

The first social housing in the parish was at Coneyhurst Cottages, which were built after the First World War. Downhurst Road was built in 1947, after the Second World War.

Being a rural parish, Ewhurst also has a large number of old barns; 39 of which were recorded by the SPAB in their ‘Domesday’ survey in 1988. A particularly fine group of barns, stables and cartsheds can be found at Hillhouse Farm. Barns built wholly on staddle stones are unusual and The Old Rectory barn is the best example in Surrey. Staddle stones are more commonly found in granaries such as those at Coneyhurst Manor and Losely.

Sayers Croft was built in 1940 as a camp school and was used for evacuees during the war. It is now a field centre. The buildings were designed by the Scottish modernist architect T. S. Tait.

Ewhurst Mill is a tower mill, which, at approx. 250m above sea level, is the highest windmill in the county. It is now converted for residential use.

The parish has two purpose built public houses, the Bulls Head and the Windmill Inn, both built in 1908 by Clemence and Moon of Guildford. Other former public houses and ale-houses, The Old Post Office, The Wheatsheaf, the White Hart and the Crown Inn are now private houses.

The village has a number of community buildings including, The Village Hall, Village Club, Cricket Pavillion and EYSC building.

Sadly, one of the most notable buildings in the parish has been lost. Baynards was an impressive Tudor mansion built in 1588 and remodelled in the 1830s. By the 1970s it had fallen into disrepair and the main house burnt down in 1979. However, many associated buildings and structures still survive on the estate. Also lost is the Youth Hostel at Ewhurst Green, and the old Tillingbourne Bus Garage. The Youth Hostel, designed by

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the architect H. L. Vicars Lobb, was purpose built in 1936 and was hailed at the time as a model building of its kind. The bus garage in The Street was a good example of a small rural bus garage.

Historic structures, such as street furniture, have an important impact on the character of the built environment of the parish. The Village Sign opposite the Bulls Head was erected to commemorate the Queen’s Coronation in 1953. The Village Notice board at Hazelbank was erected in 2000 to commemorate the Millennium. The parish has four traditional red K6 Telephone boxes and a number of post boxes. The only traditional pillar box stands outside the former Post Office in Hazelbank and bears the cypher of George VI. However, the first Post Office in the village was at Deblins Green, where the wall box dates from the reign of Edward VII. Also of note are the two Sewage Pumping Stations. These small buildings have been thoughtfully designed with interesting architectural elements.

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GAZETTEER

The parish has a great many Victorian and Edwardian houses and it is not possible to list all of them individually. These include individual houses and also former lodges and ancillary buildings such as stables to larger houses. Those that have been included on this list are mainly included for their group value, but the lack of a mention does not imply that the buildings are not considered to be of historical or architectural interest.

Airlea – see Greenfields

Alwyns

Furzen Lane, Ellen’s Green

TQ 108356

Framed cottage, 17th century with 20th century additions.

Grade II

April Cottage - see Farm Cottages, Coneyhurst

Bakers Cottage and Primrose Cottage

Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 090409

Framed pair of non-matching cottages, 17th century

Recommended for Grade II Listing

/or as Building of Local Merit for Architectural Interest and Group Value

Barn Hill

Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 083418

Converted Barn, late 18th century

Barn on former nursery site, converted for residential use.

Unusual mansard roof, thought to be the only example of its type in Surrey and Sussex.

DBRG News, Oct 2015

Baynards

Horsham Road

TQ 086368

i) site of Mansion House 1588

Site of medieval deer park, 1447.

Mansion house built by Sir George More of Losely, 1588.

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Extensively remodelled by Thomas Rickman for Rev. Thomas Thurlow, 1838. Further alterations by Digby Wyatt late 19th century.

Burnt down in 1979 and later demolished. Some structures and estate buildings survive.

ii) Gatehouse, clock tower and other surviving buildings and structures, 19th century

Grade II

Brick clock tower with stone quoins and a stone/cupola above crowned by lead ogee-dome under weathervane finial. courtyard.

Two storey gatehouse with crenellated oriels window and armorial crest.

Stable entrance and courtyard.

A section of crenellated wall with an octagonal turret in distinctive brown and blue/grey brick..

Also a lodge and various other sections of sections of walling and railings.

Also kennels (do not appear to be listed ?)

(Other surviving buildings including another lodge and estate cottages are in Cranleigh Parish).

VCH, ENGLISH 2002, PEVSNER 1962; WAINWRIGHT

Bildens

Gadbridge Lane, Ewhurst

TQ 090397

Framed hall house, c.1500.

Grade II.

2 bay hall house. Rare survival of very small hall house with one open and one floored bay, c1500. Extended by one bay in 17th century.

DBRG (Report no. 1736), GRAY 2001

Bramblehurst Farm

Ockley Road, Ewhurst

TQ 097413

Framed house, 16th century.

Grade II

DBRG suggest smoke bay house? John Baker says hall house?

DBRG, BAKER

Brackenhurst

Pitch Hill, Ewhurst

TQ 082423

Victorian house, with artist’s studio, c.1870.

Recommended as Building of Local Merit for Historic Interest and Group Value

Built of local stone with tile-hanging.

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Built for John Clayton Adams RA. (1840 – 1906) Studio with tall north-facing window adjoining. Later home to another artist Victor Coverley Price.

Bostocks – see Upper House

The Bothy – see Pigeons

Broadstone Cottage

Horsham Lane, Ewhurst Green

TQ 094397

Framed house, late 16th century.

Grade II.

Originally built as 2 separately framed cottages, each with framed smoke hoods in the late 16th century. Extended and converted into one house 20th century.

DBRG

Brookhurst Grange

Holmbury Road, Ewhurst

TQ 104418

Victorian country house.

Recommended as Building of Local Merit for Historic Interest

Used as military convalescent hospital in WWII. Now divided into three houses.

The Bulls Head

Bulls Head Green, Ewhurst

TQ 090408

i) Public house, 1908 (date on rainwater hopper heads)


Architects, Clemence and Moon of Guildford.

Built at the same time as The Windmill Inn, with similar architectural details; both have rendered walls and roofs with flared eaves, although the Bulls Head has sash windows and the Windmill Inn has metal casements.

(See also The Windmill Inn)

ii) Barn

Small framed barn (may have been re-erected from elswhere?) converted for use as function room.


Burial Ground see Parish Burial Ground

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Cheapsyde West and Pitch Gate (formerly Sunny Corner)

Coneyhurst Lane, Ewhurst

TQ 088410

Pair of cottages, 18th century?

Recommended as Building of Local Merit for Architectural and Historic Interest, and Group Value

Church Gate Cottage and Mount Cottage

The Mount, Ewhurst.

TQ 090405

Unmatched pair of cottages, originally one house, c.1700. Formerly shops.

Recommended as Buildings of Local Merit for Historic Interest and Group Value

Original small cottage c.1700 now part of Churchgate Cottage. Various extensions 18th and 19th centuries.

Used as school room before National School was built. Watercolour by John Hassell 1822

Late 1920s Distinctive bow windows added when Church Gate Cottage was a chemist shop and Mount Cottage was a sweet shop.

DBRG, HASSELL

Clare Cottage (formerly Bungtore)

Somersbury Lane, Ewhurst

TQ 098372

i) Framed smoke bay house, c.1600

Grade II

3 bays

JB (24.12.69); DBRG

ii) Framed Cart shed, 18th century

Grade II


cart shed, 2 bays.

DBRG

Coneyhurst Cottages


TQ 086415

Council houses (and former council houses) c.1920

First council houses built in Ewhurst to fulfil need for homes for returning soldiers.

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Coneyhurst Manor


TQ 084413

i) Manor House, High status hall house, 15th.century with traces of earlier building

Grade II

Partly framed, partly stone house, with two cross wings. Horsham stone roof.

2 bay floored hall replaced original open hall. Close studding & sinuous braces to hall bays.

Evidence for two cross wings of earlier dates, c.1400 and c.1500, the latter with evidence for jetty

VCH, PG, DBRG

ii) Framed Barn, 17th century

Grade II

5 bay barn.

ii) Converted Barn, 18th century

Grade II

Framed barn, 4 bays. Now converted for residential use.

SPAB, DBRG

iii) 2 Granaries on staddle stones; and 18th century cartshed


Coneyhurst-on-the-Hill, Mendip and Brackenlea

Pitch Hill, Ewhurst

TQ 082421

i) Coneyhurst-on-the-Hill

Important Arts & Crafts country house, architect Philip Webb, builder George King of Abinger, 1884

Grade II

Brick with weather-boarded gables. Narrow sash windows and plain, tall chimneys emphasise the vertical elements of the design.

Divided in the 1950s into three parts Coneyhurst-on-the-Hill, Mendip and Brackenlea.

RIBA Drawings Coll., KIRK 2005, PEVSNER 1962, RICHARDSON 1983, LETHABY 1935, WEAVER (2nd ed.) 192?

ii) Mendip and Brackenlea

Grade II

Former servants wing and gardeners cottage.

RIBA Drawings Coll., KIRK 2005, PEVSNER 1962, RICHARDSON 1983, LETHABY 1935, WEAVER (2nd ed.) 192?

iii) The Coach House

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Recommended listing Grade II

/or as Building of Local Merit for Architectural and Historic Interest

Former coach house to Coneyhurst-on-the-Hill, now converted for residential

RIBA Drawings Coll.

KIRK 2005, PEVSNER 1962, RICHARDSON 1983, LETHABY 1935, WEAVER (2nd ed.) 192?

Copse Hill

Pitch Hill, Ewhurst

TQ 081422

Edwardian country house, architect Christopher Hatton Turnor, 1905.

Recommended listing Grade II


Whitewashed brick, Mediterranean influence with shuttered windows and wrought iron balconies, terraced gardens.

Coophurst Farm


TQ 106412

Brick farmhouse, 19th century? Linked to converted barn, 18thcentury.

DBRG, SPAB

Corner Cottage


TQ 099345

Brick cottage, late 19th century.

Replaced an earlier toll house.

Recommended as Building of Local Merit for Group Value

Corner House (formerly Lanterns)

The Village, Ewhurst

TQ 090408

Framed cottage, partly stone, c.1600

Grade II

3 bay house (possibly end smoke bay?)c.1600. Separate brick dwelling added 19thcentury, now one house

DBRG

Cornhill Manor (formerly Malquoits)

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Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 088415

Large Victorian house, late 19th century.


Brick with decorative half timbering.

Now boarding house for Hurtwood House School.

RIBApix

See also – Pigeons / The Bothy

Coverwood Farm see The Old Farmhouse, Coverwood

Coverwood House – see Lillianfells

Coverwood Lakes

Peaslake Road, Ewhurst

TQ 093433

Gardens

String of small lakes, woodland and bog garden with rhododendrons and azaleas. Arts & Crafts style stone pergola. Featured in Country Life.

Open to public under NGS

CL (12.7.1930, 2.7.1932, 22.3.1973, & 9.5.1966); ELLIOTT 1995

Cox Green Cottage

Baynards Lane, Cox Green

TQ 094349

Former lodge to Maybanks


See also Maybanks and New Barn Farmhouse

Coxland


TQ 093383

Substantial stone house, 2½ storeys + half cellar, early 17th century.

Grade II

Semi coursed stone with brick string courses and quoins. Stair vyse to rear, now main entrance. Wrought iron gates with words COXLAND and EWHURST, c.1930

DBRG

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Crown Cottage and Little Crown (formerly The Crown public house)


TQ 089408

Framed smoke bay house, 16th century, now divided into 2 dwellings

Grade II

4 bay central smoke bay house. Horsham stone roof.

Victorian face wing has date 1870and JB over the door, for James Baxter, landlord

Formerly public house, closed 1960 and converted into two cottages.

DBRG

Deblins Green – see Old Farm

The Dukes Cottage

Cox Green, Rudgwick

TQ 094348

Framed smoke bay house, late 16th century + later additions.

Grade II

3 bay central smoke bay house, 16th century. Extra bay added 17thcentury. Extra bay added in convincing 17thcentury style early 20th century.

PG

Downhurst Road

Ewhurst

TQ 093407

Council houses (and former council houses) 1947

Post war council houses. Spacious semi detached houses on large plots. Variety of designs by Hambledon Rural District Council in vernacular style.

Duke of Kent School – see Woolpit

Eastland Farm

North Breache, Plough Lane, Ewhurst

TQ 104407

i) Brick house, 18th century

Grade II

Horsham stone roof

ii) Barn

Grade II

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5 bay framed barn, (4 bays originally) with added outshots, early 18th century, but with some re-used timber and attached stable.

SPAB, DBRG

Ellens


TQ 104354

i) Framed house, 16thcentury, with extensions and alterations by Maurice Webb, 1914

Grade II

Original 16th century house extended to form substantial country house, deliberately built to look old, using reclaimed materials including Horsham stone for the roof. Extensive formal gardens in 1920s.

Now divided into three houses

BARRON 1929

ii) Barn, 16th century 5 bays

Recommended as building of Local Merit for Group Value

Sawn oak & elm cladding,

SPAB

Ellen’s Green Memorial Hall


TQ 099355

Village Hall, 1951

Recommended as Building of Local Merit for Historic Interest because of War Memorial plaque in building

Built in memory of WWI & WWII dead. Commemorative plaque in building lists names of the Fallen of the First World War, with names from the Second World War added. The plaque originally formed the back of a stone seat, which stood on the green outside the hall, and was placed in the hall in 1951. (The names are also listed on the Ewhurst First World War and Second World War memorials)

See also War Memorials

Ellen’s Green School House and The Old School House


TQ104354

Former Victorian school & schoolhouse, 1870.


Built as a ‘Voluntary’ (church) school following the 1870 Education Act. Sold by Ewhurst Parochial Church Council to Surrey Education Authority in 1911 to be run as a council ‘Provided ‘school

Closed 1956 and converted into two dwellings.

Ellen’s Green Mission Hall - see ‘The House on the Green’

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Ewhurst Baptist Church

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 090407

Chapel and attached meeting room, formerly Congregational Chapel, 1908.


Replaced earlier corrugated iron chapel in Shere Road (TQ089409).

Stone built with random rubble and clear leaded windows. Eight foundation stones on porches and across front of building.

nEWs& viEWs [Ewhurst parish magazine] 2008

Ewhurst Brickworks (Hones)

Horsham Lane, Ewhurst

TQ 109381

Former brickworks, now derelict.

Hones brickworks operating 1934-1972.

Surviving buildings include 9 drying sheds, 7 brick kilns + other sheds. All machinery has been removed.

Clay pits now water filled.

WAINRIGHT, HAVERON 1985

Ewhurst Bowling Centre

Cranleigh Road, Ewhurst

TQ 089399

Pavilion 1996, and adjoining Bowling Green

Built with lottery grant. Replaced earlier pavilion.

(Original pavilion built and green laid out 1937, extended after WWII with money raised as part of Welcome Home Appeal).

Ewhurst Church of England Infants School

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 091404

Village school, 1846 + modern additions


Former Victorian ‘National School’ & schoolhouse.

Stone with leaded window sand bell turret. Original schoolroom with partition and accommodation for teacher, 1846. Additional classroom, 1905.

Refurbishment and extensions, 1958, 1972 and 2010

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Dove Centre (replaced Miller Hut) opened 2016

BALCHIN 1996

Ewhurst Cricket Club

Ewhurst Green

TQ 097395

Pavilion 1967/8 + later extensions.

Replaced small wooden pavilion. Cricket has been played at Ewhurst Green for around 150 years.

Ewhurst Mill (Windmill) – see The Old Mill

Ewhurst Place

Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 089418

Victorian country house


Stone with crenellations. Carving over front door features ‘The Pelican in her piety’ (drawing her own blood to feed her young).

Replaced the old Isemongers Farm. A new farmhouse was built to the NE and a 16th century barn was moved to the new site.

Now boarding house for Hurtwood House School.

See also The Coach House, Isemongers and Robinswood

Ewhurst Place

The Coach House

Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 088419

Coach house

Recommended as Building of Local Merit for Historic Interest and Group value

Former coach house, stables and brick stable yard for Ewhurst Place. Now converted for residential with artist’s Studio

Ewhurst Village Club


TQ 092408

Reading Room & Institute, 1901

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Originally single storey building

Rifle range added 1913 and rebuilt 1983

Ewhurst Village Hall

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 091403

Church Hall 1908.

Adopted by Parish Council as Village Hall in 1974.

EYSC Building (Ewhurst Youth and Sports Club)

Ewhurst Recreation Ground

TQ 091403

Timber two story building 2009. Local architect, Nigel Farrington, and builder, Alan Overton.

Replaced earlier timber building and sports hall.

Fairfields


TQ 107355

Framed cottage, 17th century.

Grade II

Farm Cottages (April Cottage and 2 Farm Cottages)


TQ 005415

Pair of semi-detached tile hung cottages, c.1930s

Recommended as Buildings of Local Merit for Group Value

Farm workers cottages for Coneyhurst Farm.

The Fields Cottage

Ewhurst Green

TQ 107355

Framed smoke bay house, late 16th century + Victorian additions.

Recommended Grade II

/or as Building of Local Merit for Architectural and Historic Interest and Group Value

3 bay end smoke bay house. Brick walls, but roof intact.

Victorian parallel range to front

DBRG

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Folly Hill (formerly Heathside)

Moon Hall Lane, Ewhurst

TQ 085422

Large Victorian house, incorporating earlier cottage.


Original small cottage, 18th century. Victorian house built in front retaining cottage as staff wing.

Extensive additions and remodelling, early 20th century, then reduced in size by demolition of west ‘wing’ mid 20th century. West wing reinstated in new form, late 20th century.

DBRG (Cottage only)

The Four Winds

Pitch Hill, Ewhurst

TQ 078426

Edwardian country house, 1911.


Continental influence, with colonnade and balcony.

GRAY, A Stuart 1985

Gable Cottage

The Mount, Ewhurst

TQ 092405

Small cottage in grounds of Old Rectory


Gadbridge Farm


TQ 091397

Framed hall house, mid 15th century

Grade II

4 bay hall house with 2 bay hall, internal jetty and crown post roof. Also detached sunken dairy now incorporated into house

DBRG

Gadbridge Farm Cottage


TQ 091397

Small converted barn, part framed & weather-boarded and part stone.

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See also Grooms Barn

Garlands

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 091406

i) Substantial village house with decorative facade & chimneys, early 19th century. Now divided into two dwellings


/or as Building of Local Merit for Architectural and Historic Interest and Group value

Early 19th century villa in fashionable ‘Picturesque’ style. Possibly a remodelling of a pre-existing house. Particularly fine glazing bars to windows and original external shutters. Decorative chimney stack with brick and flint spirals.

Alterations to roofline and extension to side in late 19th century.

Large garden with mature trees.

DBRG

ii) Garlands Cottage

Former coach house, now residential

Gasson


TQ 098438

Stone house

Traditional style. Also barns and outbuildings

The Glebe Centre

The Glebe, Ewhurst

TQ 092405

Community Centre, 1970?

Local authority community centre serving sheltered housing. Former Wardens house next door.

Greenfields and Airlea

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 093400

Cottage, 17th century? and adjoining house.


Greenfields- 3 bay end chimney house. Parallel range added (Airlea) c.1900

At one time all one house (Holmcroft), now 2 separate dwellings

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Greenfield Cottage


TQ 092400

Victorian Cottage


Brick and tile hung detached cottage.

Grooms Barn


TQ 091397

Converted barn


3 bays, weather-boarded, early 18th century

SPAB, DBRG

See also Gadbridge Farm and Gadbridge Farm Cottage.

Hazelbank Cottages

Hazelbank, The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 092401/2

Victorian Cottages

A mixed development of brick semi-detached and terraced cottages built from around 1880 – early 1900s. Includes former Bakery (The Old Bakery) and current village stores (Hazelbank Country Stores).

Heath Cottage

Moonhall Road, Ewhurst

TQ 085423

Victorian house, c.1875 +20th century extensions.


Replaced an old cottage

High Broom


TQ 085423

Victorian country house, c1890.


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Shell of former astronomical observatory in grounds, built by astronomer, Prof. John Evershed. (Instruments removed 1953)

High Broom Cottage


TQ 085422

3 room end chimney house, stone. c.1700

Recommended as Building of Local Merit for and Historic Interest and Group Value

DBRG

High Edser

Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 088412

i) Framed house, early conversion from 16th century barn

Grade II

16th century barn converted to house in early 17th century with addition of chimney and 2 extra bays.

19th century granary incorporated into house 1979

PG, DBRG

ii) Barn, stables etc


High Wykehurst

Wykehurst Lane, Ewhurst

TQ 078406

Edwardian country house, architect Ernest Newton, 1906. Now divided.

Recommended Grade II (see Lukyns, which is Grade II)

/or as Building of Local Merit for and Architectural and Historic Interest and Group Value

Classical design in brick. Roof with modillion eaves and dormers

Newton also designed Lukyns in similar style, but Lukyns has casement windows and High Wykehurst has sash windows.

NEWTON 1925

ii) Former lodge, chauffeur’s cottage, coach house etc.

Recommended listing as Buildings of Local Merit for Architectural and Historic Interest and Group Value

Hill House Farm


TQ 103369

i) Framed hall house, late 15th century.

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Grade II

3 bay hall house with 2 bay open hall, late 15th century. Parlour bay added, smoke bay constructed and hall floored, 16th century. Parlour wing extended and chimney inserted into smoke bay 17th century. The chimney is massive with a bacon loft large enough for 3 men to stand in. 19th century – two story face wing added

Total restoration and conversion of house and farm buildings1999. The house survived un-modernised until the late 20th century without running water or electricity. The hearth was the sole source for cooking until the late 1980s. The house is also the only one recorded by the DBRG to have both a ‘summer’ and a ‘winter’ dairy – rooms which were still known by these names in the 1980s.

18th century planned farmyard to rear, incorporating 5 listed buildings – see below

Large embanked pond to north, possibly early fishpond.

ii) Stable

Grade II

Framed 4 bay stable, 18th century adaptation of earlier building.

DBRG,

PG, 1998 & 2001

iii) Barn, 17th century

Grade II

Framed 3 bay barn, late 17th century or 1st half 18century with re-used timber from 14th century barn.

DBRG

PG, 1998 & 2001

iv) Barn, 18th century

Grade II

Framed 4 bay barn

DBRG

PG, 1998 & 2001

v) Cattle shelter, 18th century

Grade II

Framed 4 bay open cattle shelter, 18th century with later alterations.

DBRG

PG, 1998 & 2001

vi) Store-shed, 18th century

Grade II

Framed 3 bay shed

DBRG

PG, 1998 & 2001

Holmbury House

Holmbury St Mary

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TQ 105427

Large Victorian country house c.1860


Replaced an earlier house called Deacons.

Some surviving garden feature, including terrace, walls and garden buildings.

Now Mullard Space Science Laboratory

Hones - see Ewhurst Brickworks

The Hoyle / Hoyle Cottage

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 089406

Hall house, early 15th century

Grade II

Two hall bays survive of possible four bay early hall house (Hoyle Cottage). Fine cambered tie beam with arch braces. Crown post roof. High + low ends replaced by new cross wings at later dates.

Adjoining brick cottage added 19th century, incorporating south cross wing.

The House on the Green formerly Ellen’s Green Mission Hall


TQ 100354

Former Parish Hall, 1887


Brick built hall, reading room and caretaker’s house. Turreted entrance porch. The east part was originally a full height open room, now converted to two storeys.

Built by Rev John Mount Barlow, Rector of Ewhurst in memory of his brother Francis Barlow and his wife and son.

Converted into dwelling 1979

BALCHIN 2012

Hurtwood Edge

The Warren, Pitch Hill, Ewhurst

TQ 07742

Edwardian country house, architect Arthur Bolton, 1910.

Grade II

Italianate style with tower.

Garden featured in JEKYLL & WEAVER

PEVSNER 1962, WEAVER (Vol.2), JEKYLL & WEAVER

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Hurtwood House (now Hurtwood House School)

Radnor Road, Ewhurst

TQ 101427

Large Edwardian country house, architect Christopher Hatton Turnor 1907.



Ornate framed ‘Tudor’ style with decorative ogee bracing

Terraced gardens inspired by gardens of Monserrate at Sintra, Portugal

CL 18.11.1911, JEKYLL & WEAVER

Hurtwood House (now Hurtwood House School)

Radnor Road, Ewhurst

TQ 101427

Lodge, Architect Christopher Turnor



The lodge is larger and better appointed than would normally be expected as Sartorius used it as a temporary dwelling while the main house was being built.

Isemongers Barn


TQ 091423

Barn, 16th century

Grade II

16th century 3 bay framed barn moved from previous site at old ‘Isemongers’, now Ewhurst Place, in the late 19th century

SPAB

Ivy Cottage


TQ 089408

Cottage, 18th century, incorporating older framed cottage, 17th century

Grade II

18th century double pile brick & stone cottage. To the rear is an early 17th century, one roomed framed cottage, and chimney.

South wall good example of galleting.

DBRG

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Jays Cottage

Horsham Road, Ellen’s Green

TQ 099354

Brick cottage 18th.century?


Lake House, Boat house


TQ 0894428

Boat house on small lake, c.1885.

Formerly part of Woolpit Estate. Gardens laid out c.1885 by Edward Kemp of Birkenhead.


See also Woolpit

Lemans Barn Farm

Wykehurst Lane, Ewhurst

TQ 075404

Framed Barn, 18th century.


SPAB

Lilianfells (formerly Coverwood House)


TQ 095434

Edwardian country house by architect Gerald Calcott Horsley of Art Workers Guild, 1909.

Recommend Grade II

/or as Building of Local Merit for Architectural and Historic Interest and Group Value.

Replaced earlier house, 1846

Terraced gardens, featured in Country Life. (See also Coverwood Lakes)

CL (12.7.1930, 2.7.1932, 22.3.1973, & 9.5.1966); ELLIOTT 1995

Lilyfields


TQ 093398

Edwardian Arts & Crafts house, architect R. A. Briggs, c1902.

BRIGGS date?

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Recommend Grade II


Little Crown – see Crown Cottage

Little Woolpits


TQ 088423

Late Victorian country house, c.1880


In pretty ‘Surrey style’ with tile hanging.

Little Woolpit Cottage


TQ 088424

Small stone cottage, 19th century + modern additions


Long Copse

Pitch Hill, Ewhurst

TQ 082421

i) Important Arts & Crafts house, stone with thatched roof, architect Alfred Powell and interior woodwork by Ernest Gimson, 1897

Grade II

PEVSNER 1962, WEAVER (Vol. I) 1911, GRADIDGE 1991, DAVEY 1995

ii) Separate cottage

Grade II

In similar style and materials to Long Copse. Originally designed as staff cottage

Losely


TQ 101415

i) Framed smoke bay house c.1550

Grade II

3 bay end smoke bay house, c1550.

Parlour wing added in 17th century.

NEVILLE (2nd Ed) 1891

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ii) Barn, 18th century


3 bays, part brick, part timber, now used as a garage.

SPAB, DBRG

TQ 101415

iii) Granary


Three bay granary standing on brick staddles with stone pads.

DBRG

Lower Breach

Lower Breach Road, Ewhurst

TQ 107396

i) Brick house, 17th century?

Recommended as Building of Local Merit for and Architectural and Historic Interest

Imposing brick house with mullioned leaded windows. Horsham stone roof.

ii) Barn


Small converted brick barn with leaded windows on opposite side of the road.

Lukyns


TQ 103420

Edwardian house, architect Ernest Newton, 1911.

Grade II

Built for Sir Dugald Clerk, Scottish engineer and inventor. Rainwater hopper heads have his initials and thistles. Classical design in brick. Roof with modillion eaves and dormers.

Original garden plan by Gertrude Jekyll.

Newton also designed High Wykehurst and while both are of similar style, the detailing is different with Lukyns having casement windows and High Wykehurst, sash windows.

PEVSNER 1962; NEWTON 1925, Reef Point Gardens Collection No. 118, University of Berkley, California

Lukyns Farm (formerly New House Farm)


TQ 102418

i) Farm cottage, associated buildings and walled kitchen garden.



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SPAB

Magalee

Moon Hall Road, Ewhurst

TQ 085426

Stone cottage, early 19th century + 20th century additions.


Isolated position entirely surrounded by common land.

Mapledrakes

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 093401

Former farmhouse, early 19th century.


Double pile brick & stone house, possibly incorporating part of earlier house?

Stone garden wall has date stone, by gatepost - ‘TR 1694’(Thomas Ryde of Oldhouse owned the property at this time. Similar date stone at Oldhouse)

DBRG

Marylands-in-Hurtwood

Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 083420

Important inter-war country house, architect Oliver Hill, 1928/30

Grade II*

Highly individual house inspired by Moorish Spain.

Built of local stone with roof of turquoise pan-tiles, especially imported from Sweden (re-roofed with new tiles 2015 and timber guttering).

Interior shows influence of Lutyens’s work at Castle Drogo.

Gertrude Jekyll advised on planting for terrace.

PEVSNER; POWERS, CL 24.10.1931; The Builder 24.1.1928; Ideal Home June 1938.

Plans and correspondence at RIBA study room at V&A

Mascalls

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 095405

i) Framed smoke bay house, late 16th century + 20th century additions

Grade II

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2 bay smoke bay house late 16th century. Original house very small with just one room on each floor. 2 bay cross-wing added late 17th century.

DBRG

ii) Outbuilding with dovecote.


2 story outbuilding and open shelter

Maybanks

Cox Green Rudgwick

TQ 093353

i) Large Victorian country house incorporating earlier Georgian house.



Symmetrical double pile brick house, 18th century. Extended to north late 18th century.

Large extension to south in ‘Queen Anne’ style, central turret with ornate Flemish gable, mid 19 th century.

VCH; DBRG

ii) Farm yard and outbuildings, 18th century.


Planned farmyard including brick built barn and stables with pigeon loft.

Buildings now converted for domestic use.

SPAB, DBRG

Milk Hill

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 092405

i) Framed smoke bay house, 17th century. Former butchers / dairy.

Grade II

3 bay central smoke bay house, early 17th century. Detached single cell building built to front of house and later joined to house. Shop built to front, 19th century.

DBRG

ii) Cart shed now converted into small separate cottage.

DBRG

Mill (Windmill) – see The Old Mill

Mill Cottage and Windmill House

Pitch Hill, Ewhurst

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TQ 078426

Adjoining cottages, 17th century and 19th century.


/or as Building of Local Merit for Historic Interest and Group Value

Small stone cottage (Mill Cottage), 17th century.

Parallel stone range added to front as separate dwelling (Windmill House) 19th century

Moated House Farm

Cox Green

TQ 086350

Moated manorial site (formerly West Pollingfold – the manor house of Manor of Pollingfold)

Scheduled Ancient Monument Number 3393464

Probably occupied from 13th century.

Abandoned late 19th century. No trace of buildings apart from light scattering of brick and tile. Moat intact. Well. Two fishponds to east of site.

Moon Hall


TQ 084422

Large country house, architect G. L. Kennedy, 1920.


/or as Building of Local Merit for Architectural Interest and Group value

Built for artist Lawrence Peter Harrison. Includes studio.

CL, WEAVER (Vol. 3) 1925

Mount Cottage – See Churchgate Cottage

Mulberry Court

Ockley Road Ewhurst

TQ 093408

Victorian house, c.1889.

Mundys Hill

Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 087412

i) Framed smoke bay house, c1600. Now brick.

Grade II

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3 bay end smoke bay house c.1600. Chimney inserted 1725 (dated brick).

DBRG

ii) Small brick 2 storey coach house.


North Breach

Plough Lane, Ewhurst

TQ 106405

Large Victorian country house, architect Sir Aston Webb, c.1881. Restored and extended 2007.

Grade II

Stone with crenellations and stone mullioned windows. Tower with cupola.

The Building News 1881

Oak Cottage


TQ 099355

Framed hall house, early 15th century. Front elevation now faced in brick +later additions.

Grade II

Early 15th century 2 bay hall house. One of the smallest surviving hall houses in the county. The original house measured just 6m. by 4.5m

DBRG, GRAY, 2001

Old Oast, (formerly Cranleigh Lane End)

Horsham Lane, Ellen’s Green

TQ 099366

Framed smoke bay house, 16th century with parallel range added to front in 18th century.


/or as building of local merit for architectural and historic interest.

Old Cottage


TQ 090408

i) Framed cottage, early 17th century.

Grade II

2 bay + outshot side chimney house (or smoke bay?), early 17th century. Dated clay tile 1745.

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DBRG

ii) Building on the green

Recommended as Building of Local Merit for Group ValueThe small brick building on the green belongs to Old Cottage. Popularly believed to be the village mortuary, but this story is likely to have arisen from the fact that it was owned by the family of the village carpenter and undertaker. It may have been used for storing coffins, but is unlikely to have been used for corpses.

Old Cottage

Furzen Lane, Ellens Green

TQ 108355

Framed 3 bay end smoke bay house, late 16th century.

Grade II

DBRG

Old Farm (formerly Tudor House) and Deblins Green


TQ 089408

Framed adjoining cottages, originally one house, 16th century. Former village shop and Post Office.

Grade II

Old Farm and Deblins Green form a complex group of buildings. Old Farm is the surviving cross wing of a lost early house probably dating from the 16th century. Original house high status with under-built jetty and close studding, and Horsham stone roof. The hall bays were rebuilt in the 17th century.

Separate range with dropped tie (2½ storey) facing the green added late 17th or early 18th century. Later, a large chimney stack serving both houses joined the two builds together. Now a separate dwelling, Deblins Green

Date stone in wall early post box ‘EE 1720’ (the property was owned by Edward Evershed, who also had estates in the Dorking area)

Ede’s Stores in the 19th century a shop and the first village post office until 1908.

Post box in garden wall - see Post Boxes

DBRG (Old Farm only); JB 28.9.1973

PEVSNER

See also Wyndrums

The Old Farmhouse, Coverwood

Coverwood, Peaslake Road, Ewhurst

TQ 094432

i) Framed hall house, c.1400 + later additions.

Grade II

4 bay hall house, crown post roof, c.1400. Added wing 17th century, further extension, 18th century.

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DBRG

See also Coverwood Lakes

ii) Barn, 15th century.


/or as Building of Local Merit for Architectural Interest and Group value

3 bay framed barn.

DBRG, SPAB

The Old Forge (formerly Spange Haw)

Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 088410

Framed house 17th century and adjoining 18th century smithy.


DBRG

The Old Forge (Fire Shield Ltd)

The Street, Ewhurst

YQ 091407

Former smithy, now converted to offices.

Brick on stone plinth. Roof rebuilt.

Oldhouse

Ewhurst Green

TQ 091388

Framed hall house and barn, 15th century. Converted into one large house c.1920s.

Grade II

3 surviving bays of probable 4 bay hall house. High status house with internal jetty with moulded bressummer. crown post roof.

Date stone by front door TR MR 16?? (TR is Thomas Ryde and MR his wife Margaret. The last two numbers are badly eroded, but the date is possibly 1694 as on similar date stone at Mapledrakes, which he also owned)

Extensive alterations and addition, c.1930 converted the house, farm buildings and a barn into one large house arranged around an enclosed courtyard.

North side of house is a converted 4 bay barn with crown post roof. The barn is not shown in this position on the Tithe Map and was probably moved when the courtyard was constructed.

Extensive modern formal gardens.

DBRG

The Old Mill

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Mill Plain, Ewhurst

TQ 077426

Tower mill, 19th century.

Grade II

Tower mill, tarred brick with ogee cap, now converted into dwelling. Sails not original.

Replaced an earlier post mill, destroyed in a storm. Date ‘MLW 1839’ above door. (Mary Leah White, owner of mill).

Ceased working c.1885 and converted to dwelling c.1900.

Restored and extended 21st century.

FARRIES & MASON, 1966; HAVERON 1985

Old Place

Holmbury Hill Road, Ewhurst

TQ 104415

Framed smoke bay house, late 16th century.

Grade II

4 bay central smoke bay house with 20th century cross-wing. Ground floor rebuilt in stone and applied framing

DBRG

Old Place


TQ 097363

Framed house, c.1700, 19th and 20th century additions

3 bay end chimney house with 19th century wing in ‘rat trap’ bond brick.


DBRG

Old Plough Farm (formerly Pond Cottage)

Plough Lane, Ewhurst Green

TQ 010394

Framed hall house, late 16th century.

Grade II

4 bay hall house with 2 bay ‘overshot’ hall. Transitional stage between open hall and smoke bay.

Converted into labourer’s cottages, after new farmhouse (Plough Farm House) was built in mid 19th century. Restored to single house 1980.

DBRG, JB 12.4.1980

See also Plough Farm House

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Old Plough Farm (formerly Pond Cottage)

Plough Lane, Ewhurst Green

TQ 010394

Barn c.1600

4 bay barn. Cart entrance and exit now form approach to house.

Grade II

SPAB, DBRG

The Old Post Office

The Mount, Ewhurst

TQ 091405

Framed house, late 17th century. Former Post Office and before 1908 an inn ‘The Bull’s Head’.

Small 17thcentury cottage with early 18th century cross wing, (possibly a rebuild of an earlier wing?) Modern extension in 1950s.

Grade II

DBRG, Hassell

The Old Rectory

The Mount, Ewhurst

TQ 092405

i) Former Rectory, 1875. Architect W.H. Fletcher.


The current house is at least the 3rd building on this site. Earlier building shown in watercolour by John Hassell 1822 (SHC). Remodelled in Gothick style by Robert Ebbels.

Sold by church authorities and became private house, 1955. Now a nursing home.

SHC; LMA, BALCHIN, 2013; BRAYLEY; The Building News


Grade II


5 bay barn, standing on 42 stone staddles. Thought by GRAY 1998 to be the best example of a barn on staddle stones in Surrey.

SPAB; GRAY, 1988.

See also White Lodge

The Old School House, Ellens Green – see Ellens Green School House

Parish Burial Ground and Lychgate

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The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 092403

Recommend Lychgate as Building of Local Merit for Historic Interest and Group Value

Burial Ground administered by Ewhurst Parish Council. 1st internment 1962.

Lychgate with Horsham stone roof matches the Lychgate at the entrance to the Parish Church.

Wall and gates in front of Lychgate moved from road to current position when Car park laid out.

See also Parish Church, Churchyard and Lychgate

Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul

The Mount, Ewhurst

TQ 092404

i) Parish Church

Grade I

Cruciform plan without aisles.

Built of local stone with Horsham stone roof and cedar shingled spire.

The oldest part of the church is the nave, which is Early Norman. The south doorway has been described as one of the finest Norman doorways in Surrey but is now thought to have been largely rebuilt. The north & south transepts, and a tower and chancel, were added in the 13th century to give the present cruciform plan. In 1838 the tower collapsed destroying the chancel and north transept. Rebuilt with new tower to designs by Robert Ebbels.

Fittings and fixtures recorded by NADFAS. Important items include Early Norman font, 17th century alter rails and Commandments& Beatitude wooden tablets, and two pre reformation bells.

NADFAS, BALCHIN 2012, BLATCH 1997, CRACKLOW 1972 (reprint), EAGOR 1958; PEVSNER 1962

ii) Churchyard and Lychgate

Churchyard surrounding parish church and second area of burials to south.

Lychgate with Horsham stone roof. The design of the side rails copies the zig-zag pattern of the West Porch. c. 1929. Approached by a Horsham ripple stone path from The Mount.

Memorials include several 18th century table tombs and 3 wooden rails or ‘bedboards’, and a Compton Pottery cross.

BALCHIN 2013

See also Parish Burial Ground

iii) The Wilson Room, parish meeting room and office, 2010.

Modern timber framed building built by 2010. Donated by Peter and Audrey Wilson.

BALCHIN 2013

Pigeons and The Bothy

Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 088416

Former outbuildings connected with Malquoits (now Cornhill Manor) now converted for residential.

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Stable block with pigeon loft

SPAB; WAINRIGHT

Recommended as a Building of Local Merit for Group Value

See also Cornhill Manor

WAINWRIGHT

Pipers Croft

Furzen Lane Ellen’s Green

TQ 010355

Framed smoke bay house, c1550

Grade II

4 bay central smoke bay, c 1550 + added bay 17thcentury.

Retains many original features including Horsham stone roof.

DBRG

Pitch Gate - see Cheapside

Plough Farm House

Plough Lane, Ewhurst

TQ 101397

Brick house 19th century

Replaced Old Plough Farm as main farmhouse for Plough Farm.

Brick house with sash windows. Brick garden wall. The ‘Georgian’ style portico is not original.

See also Old Plough Farm


Pollingfold Manor (formerly Pollingfold Farm or East Pollingfold)


TQ 099361

i) Framed hall house 16th & 17th century. + modern extensions.

Grade II

3 bays surviving of probable 4 bay hall house with low end and 2 bay open hall. Crown post roof.

High end replaced by new cross wing in 16th century.

Not a manor house, in the feudal sense, the manor house of Pollingfold was West Pollingfold - see Moated House Farm.

PEVSNER 1962, GREEN & DAVIE 1908

ii) Converted barn, 17th century.

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Grade II

Framed barn converted and extended for residential use.

SPAB

iii) Granary, 19th century.

Granary on stone staddles

Grade II

SPAB

Pond Cottage (not to be confused with Old Plough Farm, formerly Pond Cottage)

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 093401

Cottage, 19th century.

Double fronted brick cottage on bank above roadside pond.


Post Boxes

i) Pillar box

Hazelbank, Ewhurst TQ 092402

Traditional red pillar box stands next to the telephone box outside the former Post Office (1932 - ????)

Bears the cypher of George VI.

ii) Wall box, Deblins Green, TQ 089408

Edward VII wall box with initials ER / VII

This was the first village post office until 1908.

iii) There are also a number of modern red boxes on poles in various parts of the parish

Primrose Cottage – see Bakers Cottage

Radnor Cottage

Holmbury Hill Road, Ewhurst

TQ 103426

i) Brick house, 18th century, but with traces of earlier house.


Georgian house with Regency additions?

Central chimney only surviving structure from early house, possibly 16th century.

Now used as a boarding house for Hurtwood House School

DBRG

ii) Barn c.1600

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SPAB

ii) Woodshed, 19th century

DBRG

Radnor Place Farm (formerly Gravetts)

Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 096419

Barn, c1600

Isolated framed barn.

SPAB

Rapsley


TQ 080415

i) Framed smoke bay house, mid 16th century. + 19th century wing

Grade II

Central smoke bay house, mid 16th century.

High status house with decorative Ogee bracing to northern bays.

Extended in 19th century. Now divided into two dwellings.

Site of Roman villa in garden and partly under old house (see below).

DBRG


Grade II

4 bays framed barn, second half of the 16th century.

Converted for studio and lateral chimney added.

SPAB, DBRG

Rapsley Cottage


TQ 080415

Former gardener’s cottage to Rapsley

Recommended as Building of Local Merit for Group ValueSee also Rapsley

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Rapsley Roman Villa

Rapsley, Coneyhurst Lane, Ewhurst

TQ 080415

Roman Villa AD180

Scheduled Ancient Monument number 393954

Occupied 2nd-4th centuries AD with mosaics and heated rooms.

Excavated 1961-69 and back filled after excavations, but some foundations visible.

HANWORTH 1968 (SAC), WAINRIGHT

Robins Wood (formerly Salthurst)

Peaslake Road

TQ 087422

Stone cottage 17th century + later additions.


Small stone cottage with end chimney, early 17th century.

Extended 1879 and used as Lodge to Ewhurst Place.

See also Ewhurst Place

Ruet

Cox Green

TQ 091355

i) Double pile brick house, 19th century?


TQ 091355

ii) Barn.


SPAB

Rumbeams

Ewhurst Green

TQ 096393

i) Farm house.

Recommended as a Building of Local Merit for Historic Interest and Group Value

Double pile house, 18th century (replaced earlier house of which no trace)

Random rubble stone with brick quoins.

DBRG

ii) Barn, 18th century (planning permission granted for conversion to domestic).

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Framed 5 bay barn.

SPAB, DBRG

Also Cattle shelter, 18th century.

DBRG

Sansomes


TQ 104354

i) Framed house, now brick, 17th century.

Grade II

Framed house with Horsham stone roof, 17th century.

New brick front added and sash windows, 18th century

ii) Two Barns.

SPAB

Sayers Croft Farm – see Thornhurstbrook Farm

Sayers Croft Field Centre


TQ 087401

Field Centre, formerly Camp School for WWII evacuees, architect T. S. Tait, 1940

Dining Hall Grade II

Recommended extending Grade II listing to whole site, or making site a Conservation area or possibly ASHLV.

Or list all other buildings on site as Buildings of Local Merit for Architectural and Historic Interest and Group Value.

(Listing summary for dining hall - “However, the value of Sayers Croft lies not only in Tait's designs for the individual huts, but in the camp's unique survival as a whole, and in its history. These are best represented in the totality of its structures.”)

Single story Canadian cedar buildings with cedar shingle roofs. Built under the provisions of the Camps Act 1938. Designed by Scottish modernist architect Thomas Smith Tait of Burnet, Tait and Lorne. Completed 1940 and used for 4 years as an Evacuation Camp School.

Surviving air raid shelter and known sites of other shelters.

Grade II Dining Hall also recorded as a War Memorial by the Imperial War Museum because of the murals painted by the boys showing camp activities in ‘Winter’ and ‘Summer’)

Now a Residential Field Centre run by Westminster City Council.

HOWARD 2001

Shippen Hill

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TQ 085413

House, random rubble, c.1930


Shoreys and Hill Cottage

Moon Hall Lane

Pitch Hill

TQ 085423

Former stables and cottage, part of Folly Hill estate, now two residential houses.


Slythehurst


TQ 087394

i) Framed house, 16th century?

Grade II

Extended c.1880

JB ?.?.1970

ii) Barn.


Said to have been re -sited from ‘Sutton Place’ (probably Sutton Place, Abinger, but could be Sutton Place Guildford)

SPAB, GRAY

Somersbury Manor


TQ 091384

Framed manor house, 16th century + 20th century extensions.

Grade II

3/4? Bay central chimney house.

High status house with continuous jetty, close studding and Horsham stone roof. dropped tie? Stair vyse rises to attics.

NEVILLE; GREEN & DAVIE 1908

Square Leg Cottage

Ewhurst Green

TQ 095394

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Brick cottage, late 19th century.


Incorporates older chimney from an earlier build.

Summerfold

Pitch Hill, Ewhurst

TQ 076425

Edwardian country house, 1910, architect Reginald Cuthbert Fry


Prominent hill top position. Classical design in white stucco with colonnade.

Derelict after WWII, Restored 1986.

Stone Cottage

Ewhurst Green

TQ 095393

Small stone cottage, 17th century.


Sunny Corner - see Cheapside

Telephone Boxes

i) The Village, Ewhurst, TQ 090408

ii) Hazelbank, Ewhurst, TQ 092402

iii) Ewhurst Green, TQ 094395

iv) Ellens Green, TQ 099354

There are four classic red ‘K6’ telephone boxes, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, in the parish. The one at Ewhurst Green was erected in 1935, but the one opposite the Bulls Head was not erected until 1950

Tenacres


TQ 105384

Huts, formerly Holiday Camp

Tenacres Holiday Camp was established by Herbert Tate, who bought ten acres of land from the former Abinger Somersbury Estate in the 1920s. Holiday makers stayed in small huts and there was a common room for meals. In the 1930s they took school groups. Some huts still survive (although enlarged and modernised.)

Thames Water Sewage Pumping Stations

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i) Canfold Wood SPS


TQ 086397

ii) Ewhurst Green SPS

Ewhurst Green, Ewhurst

TQ 096391

Brick with fully hipped tiled roof and flared eaves. Wrought iron finials to corners of eaves.

Although purely functional, these small buildings have been thoughtfully designed.

Thornhurstbrook Farm (formerly Sayers Croft Farm)

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 088403

i) Framed house, 16th century.

Grade II

Extensive renovation 2002/3

DBRG, GREEN & DAVIE 1908

ii) Converted barn, 17th century.

4 bay framed barn, 17th century. Converted for residential use 2003

SPAB, DBRG

Tillhouse Farm


TQ 094361

i) Framed smoke bay house, late 16th century.

Grade II

4 bay central smoke bay house, late 16th century. Separate modern extension.

DBRG

ii) Barn, 2 bays 18thcentury.

DBRG

Tradewinds

Cox Green

TQ 095348

Framed smoke bay house, late 16th century + 19th century extension.

Grade II

4 bay central smoke bay house, late 16th century. Victorian extension in brick, later clad with false framing.

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The Turrets

Shere Road, Ewhurst

TQ 087417

Former Lodge.


Stone with crenellations. Formerly Lodge to Ewhurst Place. Now Boarding house for Hurtwood House School.

Twydale Cottage

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 091406

Former Police House.

Built 1930s. Sold 1997. (The village had a resident policeman until 1996)

Upper House

Ewhurst Green

TQ 396095

i) Brick house, some framing visible early 18th century.




SPAB

Village Notice Board

Hazelbank Ewhurst

TQ 092402

Notice board, 1994

Triangular covered notice board. Timber with tiled roof and decorative wrought iron finial. Designed by Nigel Farrington, and ironwork by his son, Richard Farrington.

Built to commemorate the Centenary of the Parish Council in 1994.

Village sign


TQ 090408

Village Sign, 1953

Wrought iron village sign erected to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Designed by Robert Strand and made by A. J. Killick of Barns Green Forge.

Design features a yew tree and a ewe, and ER / 1953 / EWHURST

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Actually unveiled 2nd June 1954 – first anniversary of the Coronation.

War Memorials

i) First World War Memorial 1914 - 1918

The Mount, Ewhurst

TQ 092404

Stone cross with names of fallen on plinth.

Unveiled on the 7th November 1920


ii) War Memorial – First World War and Second World War


TQ 099355

Stone plaque in Ellen’s Green Memorial Hall.

Originally the back rest of a stone seat on the green, erected in memory of the fallen of First World War. Moved after Second World War to Ellens Green Memorial Hall and WWII names added.

See also Ellens Green Memorial Hall

iii) War Memorial – Second World War

Ewhurst Recreation Ground

TQ 091403

Small modern memorial and flag pole.

Plaques on two small brick plinths record the names of fallen of Second World War.

The entire Recreation Ground is dedicated to the memory of the men of Ewhurst who lost their lives in the Second World War.

Weavers

Ewhurst Green

TQ 095395

Framed house, part stone, 17th century? + 20th century extensions.

Grade II

3 bay house with chimney in end bay (not a smoke bay)

DBRG

Well Cottage and Brackleys

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 090407

Framed smoke bay house, late 16th century + adjoining cottage, 19th century.

Recommend Grade II for Well Cottage and Building of Local Merit for Brackleys for Historic Interest and Group Value

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Very small 2 bay smoke bay house, with only 1½ storey, late 16th century. (Well Cottage) External chimney + extra bay added and roof raise, 17th century. Adjoining house built (Brackleys) as separate dwelling, 19th century, later converted to one house, but now two again.

DBRG

Well Cottage (formerly The Cottage)


TQ 108357

Framed cottage, c.1600 + 18th century extension.

Grade II

2 bay end smoke hood house. Original house very small. Brick extension, 18th century.

DBRG

Westland Farm


TQ 099406

Pair of brick cottages, now one house, 18thcentury.

DBRG

Wheatsheaf House

Horsham Lane, Ellen’s Green

TQ 098357

Framed house, 17th century? + Victorian additions.

Certificate of Immunity from Listing valid 16th June 2014 to 15th June 2019 – Recommend conversion to Grade II on completion of works

Former public house, currently under conversion to residential.

White Hart Cottages

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 090408

Framed / stone / brick terrace of 3 cottages, (at one time 5 cottages) incorporating hall house, c.1420 + later additions.

i) White Hart House

Important early hall house, c.1420

Grade II*

3 bay hall house with 2 bay hall & 2 bay jettied cross wing.

High status early house with many original features including crown post roof, cornice rail to hall & solar. Intact framed smoke hood. Horsham stone roof.

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The solar was a high status room which may have had a non domestic function as it had separate access via a stair turret, which now forms part of the adjoining cottage (White Hart Cottage, see below).

Became an ale house, The White Hart in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the mid 20th century it had been divided into two cottages and was in a near derelict condition Extensive restoration in 1980s.

DBRG, JB (Date?) GRAY 2001

ii) White Hart Cottage

Framed / stone cottage, c.1400 + later additions.

Grade II*

Originally part of medieval house next door (White Hart House). 2 bays forming stair turret with face jetty (now underbuilt).

Extra bay added to rear in 17th century, and side in 18th century + 20th century additions.

DBRG

iii) Number One White Hart Cottages

Brick cottage, c.1800

Grade II*

The rear section dates from c.1800. Extended forward (in-line with terrace) and made into 2 cottages, late 19th century. Converted into one house, 1958.

DBRG

White Lodge

Former Lodge to The Old Rectory, c1838.Recommended as a Building of Local Merit for Historic Interest and Group Value

In ‘Gothick’ style of earlier Rectory remodelled by Robert EbbelsSee also The Old Rectory

Wicket Gate Cottage

Ewhurst Green

TQ 095395

Early conversion of framed barn, 17th century + modern additions.

Grade II

Framed 3 bay barn, 17th century. Partly rebuilt in stone and converted to dwelling, early 18th century

DBRG

Widewoods


TQ 109399

Framed house, 16th century + later alterations and additions.

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Listed Grade II

Oldest part is a late 16th century, surviving wing of a lost house, with a large lateral chimney.

Some 19th century alterations. Extended and gentrified in 1930s with extensive formal gardens.

1980s extension not part of listing.

PARKER, 1954

Willow Cottage

Ewhurst Green

TQ 095395

Pair of cottages, 18th century. Now one house.


DBRG

The Windmill – see The Old Mill

Windmill Cottage -see Mill Cottage

Winton House

The Street, Ewhurst

TQ 091406

Framed hall house, c1500

Grade II

3 bay hall house with single bay hall, crown post roof, internal jetty, c.1500.

Extended by one bay early 20th century + modern additions

DBRG

The Windmill Inn

Pitch Hill, Ewhurst

TQ 080424

Public house, 1908


Built after fire destroyed earlier building.

Architects, Clemence and Moon of Guildford.

Built at the same time as The Bulls Head with similar architectural detail; both have rendered walls and roof with flared eaves, although the Bulls Head has sash windows and the Windmill Inn has metal casements.

(See also The Bulls Head)

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Woodhall

Furzen Lane, Ellens Green

TQ 099365

Brick house, 18th century.


Woodlands


TQ 101419

Brick house

Woodlands Place


TQ 101419

Former stables and coach house to Woodlands.

Woolpit Farm


TQ 088424

i) Framed hall house, late 16th century + 20th century additions.

Grade II

4 (5?) bay transitional open hall / smoke bay house with 2 bay overshot hall. Framed smoke hood. Horsham stone roof.

DBRG

ii) Barn and out buildings.


Woolpits (sometimes spelt Woolpit) now The Duke of Kent School


TQ 089429

i) Large country house, architects George & Peto 1886/8 + Modern additions

Grade II

Built for Sir Henry Doulton.

Brick with terracotta specially made by Doulton & Co at their Lambeth factory.

Terracotta panel by George Tinworth and interior decoration by the company’s leading artists including Arthur Pearce and John Eyre, now lost.

Grounds laid out by William Kemp of Birkenhead. Originally included small lake (see Lake House) Formal gardens now built over, but small garden pavilion in brick and terracotta survives.

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Became a school in 1956. Extensive additions and alterations post war.

PEVSNER; WAINWRIGHT The Architect 1885, The British Architect 1888

ii) Garden pavilion, Lodge, stable block and walled kitchen gardens.


See also Lake House

Wykehurst Farm


TQ 078406

i) Framed smoke bay house, late 16th century + later additions.

Grade II

4 bay central smoke bay house, late 16th century.

Stone built cross-wing with date stone, ‘IG1691’ (‘I’ is actually ‘J’ for John Gadd)

SL, DBRG

ii) Barn, late 16th century, now converted for use as a function room.

Grade II

Framed 4 bay barn.

SPAB, DBRG

iii) Adjacent barn, 18th century.

SPAB,

Wyndrums


TQ 089408

Framed house, with many unusual features, dated to 1571/2 by dendrochronology.

Grade II

4 bay house, 1571/2. Built hall house but floored very soon after construction.

Unusual plan, with side gallery linking floored ends of hall – one of only a few side galleried halls identified in Surrey. Extensive and unusual carpenters marks. Contemporary side chimney. Upper chamber in main range originally open to roof.

2 bay face wing with side jetty added just one year later, 1572.

Narrow 2 storey extensions to side. Date ‘JnoPeter Glasier of Capell, Surry 1780’ scratched on window glass.

Shop front added to front. c.1900

Extensive restoration 2000s

DBRG; NEVILLE; GREEN / DAVIE

Yard Farm

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Plough lane Ewhurst

TQ 102403

i) Framed house, c.1600, with stone and brick additions.

Grade II

3 / 4 ? bay central chimney house with end jetty, c.1600.

Added stone parallel range to north, 17th century. Added brick parallel range to south, 19th century.

DBRG

ii) Barn, now converted for residential use

SPAB, DBRG


ii) Stable


3 bay, 2 storeys with hayloft over the stalls.

GRAY, DBRG

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REFERENCES & SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abbreviations

DBRG Domestic Buildings Research Group (Surrey)

NADFAS National Association of Fine and Decorative art Societies

PG Peter Gray

RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects

SPAB Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

CL Country Life

VCH Victoria County History

General Bibliography

Ewhurst History Society

Ewhurst & Ellen’s Green, Ewhurst History Society 1995

BALCHIN, Janet Ewhurst Houses and People Ewhurst History Society 2006

Selected Bibliography

BAKER, John ‘Seeing Eye’ articles in The Surrey Advertiser

BALCHIN, Janet A Short History of Ewhurst School, Ewhurst History Society 1996

BALCHIN, Janet Ewhurst Houses and People Ewhurst History Society 2006

BALCHIN, Janet St Peter & St Paul, Ewhurst 2012

BARRON, P.A. The House Beautiful, Methuen 1929

BLATCH, Mervyn The Churches of Surrey, Phillimore 1997

BOULTON, B.H.B. Timber buildings for the Country, Country Life 1938

BRAYLEY, E.W. History of Surrey, Virtue & Co 1841

BRIGGS Bungalows & Country Residences Batsford (date?)

CRACKLOW, C.T. Views of Surrey Churches, Phillimore 1972 (reprint )

DAVY, Peter Arts & Crafts Architecture, Phaidon 1995

EAGOR, W. McG. Ewhurst, Surrey, The Church of St Peter & St Paul, 1958

ENGLISH, Judie George Moore’s Other House, Surrey Archaeological Society Collections vol. 89 2002

ELLIOTT, Brent The Country House Garden, Country Life 1995

FARRIES K.G

& MASON, M.Y

The Windmills of Surrey & Inner London, Charles Skilton Ltd. 1966

GRADIDGE, Roderick The Surrey Style, Surrey Historic Buildings Trust, 1991

GRAY, A. Stuart Edwardian Architecture – a Biographical Dictionary, Duckworth 1985

GRAY, Peter Farmsteads and Farm Buildings in Surrey, SCC, 1998

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GRAY, Peter Surrey Medieval Buildings, DBRG, 2001

GREEN, Curtis

& DAVIE, Galsworthy

Old Cottages & Farmhouses in Surrey, Batsford 1908

KIRK, Sheila Philip Web, Wiley Academy 2005

HASSELL, John ‘National School’ Watercolour, 1822 Surrey History Centre

HAVERON, Francis A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of the Waverley Area, Surrey Industrial History Group 1985.

HOWARD, Ben From Brown Hill to Pitch Hill the Wartime History of Two Catford Schools Sayers Croft Evacuation Group 2001

JEKYLL Gertrude

& WEAVER, Laurence

Gardens for Small Country Houses, Country Life MCMXXIV

LETHABY, W.R. Philip Webb & his Work, O.U.P. 1935

NEVILLE, Ralph Old Cottage & Domestic Architecture 2nd Ed. 1891

NEWTON, W.G. The Life & Works of Ernest Newton, Architectural Press 1925

PEVSNER, Nikolaus & NAIRN, Ian

The Buildings of England – Surrey, Penguin,1962

POWERS, Alan Oliver Hill, Architect and Lover of Life 1887 – 1968, Mouton Publications 1989

RICHARDSON, Margaret Architects of the Arts & Crafts Movement, Trefoil Books 1983

SPAB Domesday Barn Survey, SPAB 1986

WAINRIGHT, J.H Heritage Features in Waverley, Waverley Borough Council

WEAVER, Laurence Small Country Houses of Today, Country Life Vol. I, Vol. I (2nd Ed.), Vol. II, Vol. III

PERIODICALS - The Builder, The building News, Country Life, Ideal Home, The Surrey Advertiser etc.

nEWs& viEWs (Ewhurst Parish Magazine)

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Documents

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