Description

SU 94SE BUSBRIDGE C.P. MUNSTEAD HEATH
ROAD

4/110 Munstead House
3/5/73
II

House. 1877-8 by J. J. Stevenson for Gertrude Jekyll and her mother, drawing room
remodelled by Lutyens in c.1900. Coursed and snecked sandstone block with ashlar
dressings, plain tiled and machine tiled roofs. Two storeys to left, one storey
and attics to centre and two storeys and attic to gable bay to right. Single
storey extensions to right. End ridge stack to left and front stacks to left
and right. Entrance front:- Basement plinth to front, gabled bay projecting to
right hand end. Irregular glazing-bar sash fenestration. Two windows under the
eaves to first floor left, three windows across the ground floor. Three through-
eaves,sash dormers to centre range under gable/pediments with two between-floors
sashes, lighting staircase, to left. One ground floor sash window under cornice
hood to right. Two attic windows to gable on projecting range to right with one
sash window on each floor below, both under cornice hoods and with moulded sills.
Door of six panels to left of centre under transome light of ten panes, smooth
ashlar panel over. Flat hood to base of transome light over door on fluted scroll
brackets and 5 steps to front. C20 extensions to left. Lutyens extensions set
back to right. Garden Front:- Main range to right with two square bays and
alternating recesses. Wood cornices to bays and two sashes to each floor on each
bay. One sash between bays on each floor. Lower range set back to left with
wooden square bay to centre. "Venetian" window to first floor of bay and tripartite
plate glass sash window below. Hip roofed single storey range to left with arched
double doors and keystoned surrounds. Upper attic floor now removed and stacks
truncated.
Interior:- Jacobean fireplace designed and built by G. Jekyll. Sir Herbert Jekyll
carved original Dining Room decoration.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.377.

Listing NGR: SU9852442621

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533107

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