Description

TQ 14 NW DORKING GUILDFORD ROAD
850/6/10016 Rookery Lodge

II

Estate office, later house. Circa 1896 by Smith and Brewer in Arts and Crafts style. Square on plan. Ground floor red brick and first floor pebbledashed with pyramidal tiled roof with central chimneystack. Two storeys, attic and semi-basement. Each corner has a two-storey angled square bay with Ipswich glazing to upper floor and sashes to the lower floor, otherwise windows are irregular with some coloured glass. East front has gabled dormer with casement, central first floor casement, ground floor sashes and central porch window. South side has one ground floor sash and doorcase with wooden cornice and brackets and half-glazed door. West side has central oculus to first floor, three cambered headed casements to ground floor and two round-headed arches to semi-basement. This building was designed as an estate office for a company who had bought the Rookery estate, birthplace of T R Malthus, for redevelopment.

Listing NGR: TQ1343048357

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666928

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)