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HER 8454 - WEST HORSLEY PLACE, Epsom Road, West Horsley

Country House. 15th century wing, 17th century core, refronted in early 17th century by 2nd Viscount Montagu, further altered in mid 18th century by Henry Weston who ordered the wings to be shortened. Timber framed, exposed to rear with brick infill, clad in red and brown brick to front with hipped, plain tiled roofs. H-shaped plan, main front to south, with north-east wing demolished. Entrance front (south): two storeys and attics on plinth with brick cornice over ground and first floors, brick plat band to top of parapet and following shape of end gables and central Dutch gable. End gables with brick dentils to right. 6 gabled casement dormers, 3 either side of centre. Single bay wings with ten bay centre. Bold brick pilasters to first floor on bases carrying diamond motif, composite order capitals simplified into canted plain projections, echoed in entablature above. Originally each wing projected three bays but that to right was reduced to one bay and given plain gable with Venetian window, now blocked. Thermal window to end gables, blocked to right, Venetian window to first floor left, tripartite window to ground floor left. Lunette window to centre gable in attic storey, 10 first floor and 8 ground, 16-pane, glazing bar sash windows under gauged brick heads below. Big central brick doorcase with Doric pilasters flanking "Gothic" doorcase with brick hood mould and glazed ogee transome light. Single bay extension set back to left with one window on each floor. Left hand return front (west): 3 rendered stacks and irregular mixed fenestration of glazing bar sashes and leaded casements. Mathematical tiling to first floor left, arched brick fireplace to base of one stack. Rear: rendered gable with cusped bargeboards and ogee apex. Offset end stack to right. Mixed sash and leaded casement fenestration, large sandstone block 16th century stack in angle with wing. Interior: entrance lobby - domed with band of Greek Key patterning. Great Hall - originally part of the Medieval Hall? Now floored with Doric colonnade in position of screen. Stone flagged with egg and dart eaves cornice. 6-panel doors under Doric modillion pediment overdoors. 4 columns to screen with geometric pattern to soffits. 17th century oak staircase with turned baluster balustrade, decorated dado rail. Square newel posts. Square panel ceiling decoration over. Smaller stair to east end of house with square newel posts and square balusters, large spherical finials to newels and good panelling, fielded in parts. First floor room to west wing: marble fireplace with deep leaf moulding, broken swan neck pediment over fireplace. Rose garland carving in deep relief and Greek Geometric lintel to window. In roof space of west wing are a series of octagonal and plain crown posts, at least two of which have moulded plinths and caps and four way bracing. In centre range lower gabled wings roof structures of earlier build survive. The house is also of considerable Historic Interest as it was owned by Carew Raleigh, son of Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald "Fair Geraldine" of the Earl of Surrey's Sonnets and also belonged to the Nicholas and Weston families. PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) pp.512-3. Country Life Articles - Vol 85 pp.302, 328, 354. Listing NGR: TQ0880053011

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