Description

TQ 06 SE BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE WEYBRIDGE HANGER HILL (east side) 4/339 Nos. 69 and 71 (Lorimar House)

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House, now 2 dwellings. 1854 for Benjamin Scott with addition of C1860 by Edmund Woodthorpe (Handbook, p178). Yellowish brick in Flemish bond with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with basement at rear and 4-storey tower. Original house L-shaped, the gabled wings enfolding tower set in angle and a single- storey room on right; 4-bay addition on left is set back slightly, the left bay narrower and further recessed. In Italianate style with tabled plinth, rusticated corner pilasters, ground floor entableture and console-bracketed oversailing eaves. Single-storey entrance on right of tower has long flight of stone steps with chequered bottom step and flat-coped side-walls with lions couchant at bottom; 4-panel double door with fanlight under keyed archivolt on pilasters with capitals. Ground-floor windows are round-arched sashes with archivolts on pilasters with capitals and corbelled sills; single-storey room on right has quadrupled windows; gabled bay has flat-roofed bay window with tripled windows. On 1st floor windows are square-headed having wooden cross-windows with arched top lights in shouldered surrounds with consoled segmental pediment to gabled bay; roof consoles spring from window surrounds of left- hand windows. Tower has similar window to 2nd floor and 4th floor tripled windows as ground floor with keyed archivolts, columns and paired side pilasters. Single-storey room has corrugated asbestos sheet roof, hipped at right end. Various ashlar-corniced stacks. Rear: 6 bays set forward on right plainer, having flat-arched windows with 4-pane sashes to addition, sashes with glazing bars to earlier part; a tripartite window to ground floor left. Verandah to addition with decorative S-section iron balustrade and slender fluted columns supporting glass roof; formerly extended further left (Handbook, picture on P178). At left end, iron stair in same style up to door in left return. Entrance to No. 69 on left return. Interior: No. 71 has original open- well stair, rising under tower with open string, twisted wooden balusters; in front left room decorative fireplace and cornice; in single-storey room, false decorative fireplace and Adam-style ceiling. The front room of No. 69, former music room, decorated in Pompeian style by Crace (Handbook. p178) with panelled pilasters and heavy floral cornice and ceiling border. Top floor of tower intended to be an observatory. [Handbook of Chertsey and its Neighbourhood]

Listing NGR: TQ0777864175

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