Royal Horticultural Society Offices, Wisley Gardens

TQ 05NE WISLEY C.P. WISLEY LANE

2/267 Royal Horticultural Society Offices, Wisley Gardens

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Offices. 1914 by Imrie and Angell in picturesque Vernacular style. Brown brick plinths, timber framed above with render infilling, some decorative brick and tile infilling and weatherboard cladding to projecting bays, plain tiled roofs, hipped and stepping down to ends. Two storeys and attics under two, hipped roof, leaded, casement dormers. Massive stacks; one square end stack to left, decorative half- octagonal end stacks flanking central square stack on ridge plinth to left of centre with further stack to centre and a fine front stack to right with offsets to right side and four round shafts under offset tops. One arched panel on shaft of stack. 2 casement windows to first floor right, one either side of stack, and one mullioned and transomed window to ground floor in wooden frame. Large, two storey, hipped roof projecting bay to right of centre with continuous mullioned and transomed glazing on the first and ground floors, the upper lights diamond-paned and continuing on return fronts of the first floor. Similar hipped bay projecting to left. Two first floor and one large, 7-light, ground floor windows between left hand bay and the central, gabled, entrance bay. Mullioned and transomed leaded casement on first floor over arched panelled door on ground floor in splay-sided brick surround under a 5-step, arched head. Lower range to left end with one 6-light and one tall, narrow, 9-light (3 x 3) window to first floor over two, 4-light, ground floor windows.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p.529.

Listing NGR: TQ0652958307