Levylsdene House

TQ 05SW GUILDFORD LEVYLSDENE Merrow

2/128 Levylsdene House 1/5/53 (Formerly listed under Epsom Road)

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House, remains of larger mansion. Mid-late C16 with C17 and C18 alterations, C20 extensions to left. Timber framed core, now clad to right in knapped flint rubble with brick quoins and dressings, brick clad to left. Plain tiled roofs, hipped to left. Remaining house of L-shaped plan. Two storeys and attic with plat band over ground floor and brick cornice over first floor. Offset stack to left, further front end stack to right. Bonnet hip roof over. Half-dormer casement window to left. Brick and wood corbelled eaves cornice to right. Two angled-head early C18 glazing-bar sashes to first floor left with upper glazing-bars radiating. Two similar headed windows to ground floor but with diamond-pane leaded glazing. All windows under gauged-brick heads. Blocked window to centre of first floor with decorative cross-shaped panel in knapped flint. Central double doors to ground floor, glazed under cambered-head and flat hood on brackets. One mullioned cross window to first floor right under gauged-brick and keystoned head. Pent-roofed ground floor with diamond-pane window and glazed door. C20 brick extension projecting to left end not of special interest. Right hand return front:- gable- lit attic with two second floor diamond-pane windows and one first floor window breaking into plat band. Rear:- rebuilt in C20 brick and tile hanging. Interior:- Ground floor sitting room has panelling of varying dates with some C20 sections. Overmantle contains portrait head panels of C16 style. First floor room has C17 panelling, possibly taken from Old Clandon House. soak staircase also possibly came from Clandon House with open strapwork decorated panels, spherical finials and pendants to newels. In the C18 the house was occupied by Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons and in 1757-9 the house was leased by Admiral Boscawen whilst his house was constructed nearby at Hatchlands.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.359.

Listing NGR: TQ0257150137