Description

TQ 1873 PETERSHAM ROAD
(East side)
22/25/25 No.212
Gort House
10.01.50
(Formerly listed as:
SUDBROOK LANE
(West side)
GORT LODGE)

II

Includes: GORT LODGE, SUDBROOK LANE
Early C18. Gort Lodge was entrance half of house of which Gort House, Petersham Road is garden half. Now separate properties. Four windows, 2 storeys. Brown brick, red dressings, modillion cornice. Pantiled roof. Addition to right with small splayed bay mid C18, and first floor weatherboarded at end. Two windows, 2 storeys, later brown brick wing to left. Doorcase has bowed pediment on carved consoles. The ground floor windows on either side of the door have thick glazing bars; the remainder of the windows have later C18 glazing. Gort House is 7 bays wide, (left-hand bay possibly a later addition). Mid C18 open pedimented doorcase. The basement of Gort House was adapted to serve as a World War II air raid shelter with ceiling reinforced with props and built-in bunk beds. Its walls retain a remarkable collection of beautifully executed wartime graffiti in red, blue and green paint, mostly comprising humorous verse and text.

Listing NGR: TQ1808773007

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082893

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Recommended Books

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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings