The Old Manor House

The entry for: ST MARTHA

431/4/92 DORKING ROAD 21-MAY-85 CHILWORTH THE OLD MANOR HOUSE

II

Shall be replaced by:

ST MARTHA

21-MAY-1985 DORKING ROAD CHILWORTH THE OLD MANOR HOUSE II

House. Early C17, dated 1609 over the porch, extended and encased in late C19 additions, C20 extensions to right. Red and brown brick to old part, C19 wings, tile hung above, some in fishscale pattern. Plain tiled roofs. Two storeys. Old entrance front now to right hand side away from road. Plinth, plat band over ground floor and corbelled eaves to shaped gables coped with brick on edge. Large projecting gabled wing to right with two diamond pane, leaded casement windows under cambered head on first floor. Two larger mullioned and transomed casements to ground floor. Lower wing at right angles to left with large staircase window, leaded. Further shaped gabled bay set back to left with one window on each floor. Two storey porch projecting to front right with Doric brick pilasters to ground and first floors and rubbed brick entablatures and segmental pediment above. Arched, keystoned door surround with impost blocks to half glazed arched door. C20 extension to right in similar style to main block. New entrance front: large shaped gable to left, segmental gable over entrance to right. First floor oriel window on braces to left - leaded "cross" window with three panels between braces. Two ground floor casements. Two storeyed porch to right with leaded casement to first floor, arched keystone porch entrance flanked by Doric pilasters and entablature above. Five fielded panel door with flanking lights under dentilled broken pediment. Interior: Panelled ground floor rooms. C17 iron firebacks and chalk fire surround to former library. C17 overmantles to fireplaces, one showing Abraham and Isaac and Judith and the head of Holofernes.

HISTORY: The house was the home of Kapitan Bouvier, the manager of the nearby Chilworth Gunpowder Works which was operated by a German company from the 1880s.

(Crocker G, A Guide to the Chilworth Gunpowder Mills, Surrey Industrial History Group, 1990; Domestic Buildings Research Group Report No 3121; Wayne Cocroft, Dangerous Energy. The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture, Swindon (English Heritage), 2000, p. 97)

Listing NGR: TQ0253047254