More Place

The house at More Place has a 15th-century core, with significant enlargements and alterations during the 17th and late 19th centuries. The construction is timber framed, featuring a close stud pattern on the right-hand side with rendered infill, and brick cladding to the left. The rear has brick mathematical tiles. The roofs are covered in Horsham slabs. Reigate stone stacks are visible to the right, with additional stacks at the front and rear.

The house is two storeys and has an attic in the gable to the right of centre, with a three-light leaded casement window. The fenestration includes leaded windows: two to the first floor to the left, and two two-light windows on the ground floor. To the right are two first-floor windows and three ground-floor windows, all with wooden labels. A stone ogee niche in the right-hand stack contains a bust of a Bishop, above a square quatrefoil containing a tracery panel plaque.

A projecting, gabled, two-storey porch is located to the left, with a hand motif carved into the gable’s diamond panel and grotesque decorations. The porch includes a two-light, leaded first-floor window, and a four-centred arched entrance with wooden Doric pilasters flanking a door made of six fielded panels. A hipped, slate-roofed single-storey range adjoins the left side.

The right-hand return front displays close stud framing on the gable to the left, with a jettied first floor below. There is arched bracing and timbers of substantial scantling, along with a dragon beam in the left corner. The front includes an attic window, a three-light ground floor window, and a square mullioned and transomed window sheltered by a pentice hood. A recessed range in the centre features a first-floor oriel window supported on carved scrolled brackets, with a gabled dormer above. A timber-framed wing is located to the right, also with a jettied first floor and a jettied gable end featuring leaded casement windows on each floor.

The rear of the house is characterized by triple diagonal stacks to the left, a central gable with an attic window, and an octagonal turret room with arched tracery in its leaded windows. Y-shaped windows are located on the first floor, along with a door beneath a pediment in the angle.