Description

EPSOM
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WOODCOTE ROAD
(East side)
TQ 2060 30/92 10.4.54. Queen Anne House.
Garden wall to
TQ 2059 34/92 Queen Anne House.
10.4.54. Woodcote End House.
II* GV

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Mid C18. Road front. Two storeys, red brick, three sash windows. Central
late C18 bowed stucco porch with Tower of the Winds half columns, round
headed windows and central doorway; frieze and cornice. Parapet, old
tile roof. To left of this front is projecting late C17 - early C18 portion,
now called Queen Anne House, of two storeys, red brick, with four cased
sashes, and moulded bands to floor level and as cornice to parapet. Old
panelled door to left hand with "modern Georgian" doorcase.
Elevation to garden is two storeys and attic, red brick, four sashes,
bands and parapet. Square hipped old tile roof with two flat topped dormers.
Projecting wing on right, two storeys, red brick, segmental bowed front
and 2 - light sash on each floor. Additions to left and right.
Interior. Elliptical entrance hall, coved ceiling and niche in wall
facing door, mahogany doors. Octagonal room to South with "Adam" ceiling
and walls and fireplace. Room to garden with panelled plaster ceiling.
Original staircase with delicate fluted balusters and carved brackets.
The house was the home of the Rev. Martin Madan (1726-1790) an Anglican
Clergyman of Methodist views. In 1780 he published a work called "Thelypthora"
advocating Polygamy as the only cure for prostitution in women. The book
raised a storm of protest and caused him to retire here in seclusion.
C18 wall along west side of garden to Queen Anne House: red brick.

Queen Anne House including garden wall, Woodcote End House and Nos 7 to
11 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ2067759971

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547306

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings