Garden Court

This is a house, built around 1913 by M. H. Baillie-Scott, designed in a 17th-century vernacular style. It was extended in the 1960s in a similar style. The house is constructed of red-brown brick, with a central timber-framed section having whitewashed render infilling. It has steeply pitched plain tiled roofs.

The building has a long rectangular plan with a gable-ended wing to the right. It has two storeys and attics to the left and centre, and a basement to the right-hand extension where the ground slopes away. Cross-ridge stacks are present on a stepped plinth, centrally and to the right of centre. A group of four octagonal stacks is located in the central section, with additional stacks at each end. A hipped roof dormer is situated to the right of centre.

A projecting section to the left has a half-glazed door flanked by single windows. A three-light leaded casement window is recessed in the timber-framed section, centrally. A planked door is located to the right, in the angle of the re-entrant double-gabled range. A cross window on the first floor of the left gable has a tile-on-edge lintel, and a similar window is above a further door to the right. The gable-ended extensions on the right have a three-light leaded casement window on the first floor and a four-light window below. The right-hand gable is asymmetrical and extends under a catslide to the right end.

The rear elevation features a dormer in the roof, a door within a porch recess accessed by seven steps, a three-light and a six-light leaded casement, a canted bay window, picture windows on the ground floor, and a flat-roofed single-storey projection to the left.

The original garden layout was designed by Gertrude Jekyll. The building is described in Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England: Surrey (1971), page 288.