Grotto And Flanking Walls At The Oaks

1. CROYDON LANE 4430 WOODMANSTERNE Grotto and Flanking Walls at The Oaks TQ 2761 SW 42/254 TQ 2761 SE 43/254 II 2. Late C18 to Cl9. On south side, grotto set in central recess with high red brick rear and flanking walls. Two-light casement windows in the flanking walls, some with small panes; these light the two ranges of red brick, lean-to outbuildings with slate roofs which are built against the north side of the flanking walls. The north walls of the outbuildings have segementally headed windows, six panes wide and four deep with centre pivot lights; flat headed doorways. Flanking walls included on account of the grotto.

From late C18 to 1834, the Oaks was occupied by the Earls of Derby, their house at the Oaks having been substantially built in late C18 by the twelfth Earl who died in 1834. The house was demolished circa 1957-60. For a brief history of the Oaks estate, see Victoria County History for Surrey Vol IV, see entry in MHLG provisional list of 1953 for Carshalton VDj see also I Nairn, N Pevsner and B Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey (1971).

Listing NGR: TQ2747961188