The Red House

TQ 15SW EFFINGHAM C.P. LOWER ROAD

6/90 The Red House (Formerly The Convent of Corpus Domini)

GV II

House. 1893 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Susan Muir Mackenzie. Red brick on a stone plinth with Bargate stone dressings; tile hung gables to machine tiled roofs, half- hipped to right. Two storeys with attic to gable on left and under hipped roof dormer to right. Half-H shape plan to front with projecting end bays, and wing at right angles to rear left. Massive stack to left end and further stacks to rear. Stone-dressed casement fenestration with chamfered surrounds, stone mullions and tile-on edge lintels. One 4-light window to left hand gable in attic, one 5-light window on first and ground floors below. Three 3-light first floor casements in continuous strip under the eaves to the centre, one 4-light window below. Two 2- light casements to first floor right under ogee section parapet to set back roof. 2 windows to ground floor, one to left continuing around the corner. Arched door in re-entrant angle to left in stone chamfered surround under metal covered hood suspended from hangers. Hipped roof service wing to rear left. C20 wing to right end, added when roof was altered. Originally 'The Red House"was in a Gertrude Jekyll Garden, who was a friend of the owner, and is an early work by Lutyens.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) pp 207-8.

Listing NGR: TQ1173153854