Purley Park

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SU 67 NE 3/14

PURLEY HAZEL ROAD (north side) Purley Park

25.10.51

II*

House, now home for people with learning disabilities. Designed 1795 by James Wyatt for Anthony Morris Storer and started in 1801. Portland stone. Hipped slate roof. Three storeys. Plinth, plat band between ground and first floors, parapet, and ridge stacks off-centre to left and right. Five 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. Two central four-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: three bays. Pilaster strips flanking central bay, panelled above ground floor, and central first floor tripartite sash with triangular pediment. Central ground floor bow with four Tuscan columns supporting entablature, three pairs of French casements behind with side lights, and wrought iron balustrade above. French casements with sidelights and fanlights in two outer ground floor bays.

East front: five 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