Description

TQ 16SW BOROUGH OF ELMBRIDGE HIGH STREET

Esher

5/186 No.1 (Sandown House) 28.5.69 Elmbridge Council Offices

II

District Offices. Late Cl7, remodelled in C19. Stucco facade with rendered dressings and quoins, hipped and mansard slate roofs. Rendered stacks with cresting to left and right of centre , rendered stacks to ends and rear. 2 storeys to wings, 3 storeys and attics to centre pavilion under three pedimented dormers. 4 bay wings articulated by rusticated piers with string course over ground floor and cornice to eaves. Glazing bar sash windows in projecting render surrounds with cill brackets and garlanded aprons to first floor windows. Flat hoods over ground floor windows. Projecting 5 bay central pavilion with channelled ground floor and quoined ends, modillion cornice and balustrade to eaves. Second floor windows in strip surrounds with scroll aprons below, first floor windows under panelled projecting flat hoods. Ground floor windows with block voussoirs. Central double half-glazed doors in architrave surrounds under pedimented Ionic portico on two fluted columns. Square wooden cupola with chamfered corners and ribbed dome on square plinth containing clock face to centre of pavilion roof. 5 bay extension projecting to left: 2 storeys and attic under 5 pedimented dormers, alternating triangular and segmental, with glazing bar sash windows across the first floor. Part glazed doors, 5 across the ground floor. Interior: Entrance Hall- staircase with fine twisted balusters and swept handrail, foliage carving on tread ends. Ionic screen to. left and eaves moulding. PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp221-2.

Listing NGR: TQ1409064811

External Links

• Sandown House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26281458

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)