Description

TQ 04NW WONERSH C.P. SHALFORD ROAD

1/390 Great Tangley 9/3/60 Manor and Great Tangley Manor West GV I

Manor House on moated site, now divided. C15 core, possible Hall house, with main portion built by Richard Cayll in 1584. Lord Grantley of Wonersh Park demolished the south end of the house in the C18. Wickham Flower employed Philip Webb to restore and extend the house in 1884 and in 1906 Colonel Hegan Kennard employed Inigo Thomas to build the north wing. Main front facing south-east is decorative timber frame with whitewashed and render infill, brick and whitewashed extensions to south, ashlar ground floor and roughcast above on north wing. Plain tiled roofs, hipped and half-hipped over extensions and to rear. Entrance front old range - Two storeys with three gables. Small central gable above porch tied in to bigger gable to left, largest gable to right and set back. All gables with double jetty, moulded bressumer across the ground floor. Each gable with moulded barge- boards, pendant finials and decorative frame, composed of curved diagonal braces making star shapes, or when four panels are joined, circular frame intersectedby rectangular pattern. Square corbelled offset stack to left of left hand gable, further stacks to right, and large multiple stacks to rear right. Two oriel windows of two tiers of 4 and 5 lights on first floor, each with moulded brackets and diamond pane glazing. Two flush windows of five lights on first floor of right hand gable. Projecting 12-light window (two tiers of 6-lights) with moulded transom to ground floor of left hand gable, two windows of 10 lights (two by five-lights) to ground floor of right hand gable. Four centre arched porch entrance in ground floor of centre gable to panelled porch and studded panelled door. Two windowed range to right with first floor jettied on bressumer and 5 corbels. Two leaded first floor windows and one larger ground floor window to right. One oval brick-dressed window to left. Hipped roof break to left of old range with gabled dormer, imitation framing on ground floor and two leaded casement windows. Long entrance tunnel added by Philip Webb with one sandstone and brick wall and open timber 12-bay arcade on the other, crossing the moat. Gabled end on braced circle-like timbers. Range to left with large gable and one window on each floor, panelled offset stack on left hand return front. Rear:- Mixture of tile hung gable ends and hipped wings. Framing of varying scantlings, exposed, and some arched braces. Offset stacks to centre and left. Interior:- Panelled rooms and some Elizabethan overmantels. R. A. Neville reported Crown Post roof of original Hall in 1886, and some stones from earlier building on the site have been found. Original medieval moat water- filled and incorporated as ornamental garden feature.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.266-7. P. M. JOHNSTON - SCHEDULE OF SURREY ANTIQUITIES 1913 77-8. V. C. H. SURREY (1911) VOL III pp.123-4. S.A.S. BULLETIN NO. 125 MARCH 1976 - Article by A. G. Crocker. THE ENGLISH HOUSE: H. MUTHESIUS (1979) - Details on the Philip Webb Extensions of 1893 & 2 interior Pictures. A. SAINT: RICHARD NORMAN SHAW (1976) Note 11 Chap 6. N. COOPER: THE OPULENT EYE (1976) Plates 50 & 51 Photographs(1895)of Sitting and Bedrooms.

Listing NGR: TQ0195146573

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)