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Place Farm House including Cleves Cottage

A Grade II* Listed Building in Bletchingley, Surrey

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Latitude: 51.2528 / 51°15'10"N

Longitude: -0.1004 / 0°6'1"W

OS Eastings: 532662

OS Northings: 152121

OS Grid: TQ326521

Mapcode National: GBR KK8.KF5

Mapcode Global: VHGS5.6RSY

Plus Code: 9C3X7V3X+4R

Entry Name: Place Farm House including Cleves Cottage

Listing Date: 11 June 1958

Last Amended: 25 April 1984

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1029989

English Heritage Legacy ID: 287294

ID on this website: 101029989

Location: Brewer Street, Tandridge, Surrey, RH1

County: Surrey

District: Tandridge

Civil Parish: Bletchingley

Traditional County: Surrey

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Surrey

Church of England Parish: Bletchingley St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Southwark

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TQ 35SW
2/57

BLETCHINGLEY C.P.
PLACE FARM ROAD
Place Farm House including Cleves Cottage

(Formerly listed as Place Farm House and barn to south-west)

11/6/58

GV
II*

Former Gatehouse to Bletchingley Place now house. C16 rebuilt in C18. Brick plinth, part rendered, red and brown brick above with deep eaves to plain tiled roof; end ridge stacks. Two storeys, three glazing bar sash windows under cambered heads across the first floor; outer windows tripartite. Ground floor sash windows under diagonally placed gauged brick heads. Central six panel door under traceried fanlight and flat Doric wood columned portico in blocked former gateway. Five step surround to four centred arch with brick roll moulding to outer block.

Cleves Cottage to right: wealdstone with brick dressings. Two storeys with two casements on first floor. Part glazed door to left.

Interior: Large fireplace in ground floor room to right. Large beams in roof-space formerly supporting upper storey.

The gatehouse is the only remaining building from Bletchingley Place, built by Duke of Buckingham, appropriated by Henry VIII and given to Anne of Cleves in 1540 after her divorce from the King. The house was eventually demolished in 1680 by the Earl of Peterborough.

V.C.H.: Surrey (1967) Vol. IV p.254.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p.116.

Listing NGR: TQ3266252121

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