Description

TQ 04NW WONERSH C.P. CHINTHURST LANE

1/337 Chinthurst Hill,
3/5/73 Close House and
the Gatehouse

II

House, now divided. 1893-5 by Sir Edwin Lutyens originally for Miss Guthrie, in
Tudor style with garden terraces laid out by Gertrude Jekyll. Bargate stone
block with tile-on-edge and ashlar dressings, plain tiled roofs with tile hung
gables. Roughly L-shaped plan with wing projecting to left. Built on hill-
side site, ground dropping away to terraced gardens across the rear. Mainly
two storeys with very large dominant ridge stacks of red and grey bricks under
corbelled tops, some stacks with round arched panelling and projecting tile-
on-edge imposts to corner piers. Entrance front:- large gable set back to
right with one stone-dressed, 3-light mullioned leaded casement window to first
floor with sill string course to left. One continuous window to ground floor
left of two and three lights with panelled mullion between. One 3-light stone
dressed, leaded casement each floor left of centre under pentice extension of
main roof and tile hung gable. Gabled loft door, studded, and placed diagonally
across the re-entrant angle with the projecting wing. Door to ground floor in
splayed reveal and under arch below. Two storey gabled porch to right of
centre with tile-on-edge band across base of gable and ashlar kneelers above.
One 4-light window to first floor over square panel and diamond plaque. Tudor
style arched entrance to ground floor of porch, barrel-vaulted inside with
tile-on-edge bands. Studded and ribbed door with original lock plate and
handle. Gable end of projecting wing to left, one 3-light window on each
floor. Hipped end roof with tile-on-edge eaves over through-way to left.
Further throughway to left with braced posts. Hipped roof wing with two-
light leaded window to end. Garden Front:- Three storeys with projecting
wing to left. Square-bay on end and offset buttress to right. Stone dressed
leaded fenestration with windows continuing around the corner on the first and
ground floors. To the right of the wing are two round-headed arches rising
through the ground and first floors with Gothic windows in their heads-which
light the hall. Splay sided depressed arches to ground floor with buttress
between. Projecting square bay under hipped roof to right of centre. Single
storey range to right.
Interior:- half-timbered staircase, Tudor style Great Hall and arched vaulted
corridors on first floor.
One of Lutyens earliest designs.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.537.

Listing NGR: TQ0130145644

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Chinthurst Hill Close House Gatehouse at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26551634

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