Description

SU 67 NE PURLEY HAZEL ROAD (north side)

3/14 Purley Park
25.10.51
II*

House, now home for mentally handicapped. Designed 1795 by James Wyatt for Anthony Morris Storer and started in 1801. Portland stone. Hipped slate roof. 3 storeys. Plinth, plat band between ground and first floors, parapet, and ridge stacks off-centre to left and right. 5 bays, glazing bar sashes with blind boxes. Central wider bay flanked by pilaster strips, panelled above ground floor, and central first floor tripartite sash with triangular pediment. 2 central 4-Panelled doors flanked by pilaster strips and glazing bar sashes with cornice above. Porte cochère with coupled Tuscan columns supporting full entablature with wrought iron balustrade above. Garden front: 3 bays. Pilaster strips flanking central bay, panelled above ground floor, and central first floor tripartite sash with triangular pediment. Central ground floor bow with 4 Tuscan columns supporting entablature, 3 pairs of French casements behind with side lights, and wrought iron balustrade above. French casements with sidelights and
fanlights in 2 outer ground floor bays. East front: 5 bays. Late C18 two
storey service block to west of white painted brick with slate roofs.
Interior: complete C18 ensemble. Entrance hall with delicate plaster ceiling, screen of Ionic columns to north with lower ceiling, niches to east and west, and doorcases with urns and husk festoons; double height staircase hall with curved wall to south, 2-flight stone staircase and wrought iron balustrade with intersecting ovals, delicate plaster ceiling and wall plasterwork. C18 fittings in other ground floor rooms including fireplaces, doors, doorcases, plaster friezes and delicate plaster ceilings. Enclosed second floor gallery with lunettes and central oval lantern with plaster decoration. B.O.E, Berkshire, pp.194-195; Berkshire Architectural Guide, Betjeman and Piper, Murray. 1949, p.137.

Listing NGR: SU6652575857

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553200

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)