Description

NORBURY PARK
1.
1049
Norbury Park
TQ 15 SE 8/117 28.11.51.

II*

2.
Built for William Locke in 1774. Lees-Milne's Country House list mentions
additions by P F Robinson in 1820. 3 storeys and semi-basement with forecourt.
The entrance front has 5 windows. Cemented, ground floor rusticated. The
3 centre window bays project with long and short quoins to both this section
and the flanking portions. Modillion cornice and balustraded parapet with
solid panel in the centre ornamented with a cartouche. Windows in moulded
architrave surrounds with glazing bars intact, those on the 1st floor with
projecting cornices over supported on consoles. Large porch spanning the
forecourt approached by 6 steps with twin Doric columns, balustraded parapet
over and semi-circular fanlight. On the south-west side there is an extension
of 2 window bays on the ground floor only. On the north-east is an extension
of 4 window bays. The garden front has 7 windows. White brick. Bay of
3 windows in the centre. Cornice and parapet. The windows have Venetian
shutters, and glazing bars intact on the 1st floor only. Domed conservatory
to the south-west. Inside, the "Painted Room:" the work of Cipriani, Barret,
Pastorini and Gilpin. 8 painted pilasters appear to support a leafy arbour
of trellis work, open to the sky: and on the 4 walls of the room are views
of distant countryside. 3 are painted (a pastiche of scenes in Cumberland);
one is natural: the view to the south towards Box Hill. At sunset, the light
from the setting sun coincides with the direction of light from a painted
sunset on the western wall so that all the landscapes appear to be illumined
by the same source.

Listing NGR: TQ1598553706

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Norbury Park at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7050459

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)