Description

The following building shall be included:

LIMPSFIELD UVEDALE ROAD
TQ 35 SE
TQ 45 SW
6 & 7/302 West Chart and Vixens

II

House, now two houses. 1908 with small addition of 1918 by E Turner Powell.
Red brick, tile hung to upper floor, old plain tile roofs. C16 Surrey vernacular/
Arts and Crafts style. Double depth plan with rooms opening off central passage.
Almost continous lines of leaded casement windows right round the house on both
floors but especially the ground floor. The entrance (north front) from left
to right has a single bay 1918 extension, a recessed bay, a large bay with double
projection and multi-gabled roof, a plain bay, the entrance bay with large gabled
oak porch with Horsham slab roof and another plain bay. Above are large gabled
dormers, overhanging eaves and five tall brick stacks with weathering. The tile
hanging is in bands of plain, half round and diamond tiles. The roof tiles and
the old oak used in the house came from a dismantled barn at East Grinstead.
The northwest corner has an oriel above a 2 bay loggia. The rear (garden) elevation
has a large central weatherboarded gable with a 10 light window over an overhang
supported on oak posts. The south east corner has the service entrance with
a tall window for the secondary stair above and the 'motor' house now with the
entrance glazed in.
Interior: This is very little altered apart from being divided across the main
corridors. Brick and quarry tile floors and oak floorboards. The hall inglenook,
the main stair and the dining room fireplace are framed in old oak. There are
many plank doors with wrought iron strap hinges. Some original light and sanitary
fittings. Counterbalanced loft ladder and other original domestic features.
A very good and little altered Arts and Crafts house which was illustrated in
County Life 'Small Country Houses of today' in 1910. It was electrically lit,
centrally heated and fully plumbed from the start and relics of these systems
survive in use. It demonstrates the care put into the design of a neo-vernacular
house of the period.

Listing NGR: TQ4000652266

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544336

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)