Tyrrells Wood

TQ15NE 3/171

LEATHERHEAD TYRRELLS WOOD Tyrrells Wood

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Large house, now golf club. Dated 1889 at east end; built by Roger Cunliffe, landowner and banker. Red brick with red tiled roof. Double-depth plan with service wing attached at north-east corner. Queen Anne style. Two-and-a-half storeys; principal entrance on east side, which is architecturally the rear, and has inter alia a tall Dutch-gabled projection in the centre with a large stair- window, and projecting to the right of this, and overlapping it slightly, a high porch with rusticated corners, plain pilasters with fluted consoles supporting an open pediment, and a round-headed doorway; at the left end of this side is a smaller porch in similar style; at 1st floor to the left of the stair-projection is an oriel with a segmental-headed transomed 8-light window and a segmental pediment at eaves level; otherwise, most of the windows on this side are narrow segmental-headed casements. Dentilled cornice, hipped roof with several small attic dormers, and at the right-hand end another Dutch gable. Various tall chimneys. (Single-storey addition at this end, not of special interest.) The west front, to the garden, is symmetrical, with a 3-bay centre between large canted 2-storey bays; the centre has a wide segmental-headed doorway (now with modern glazed doors), an oriel above this, with transomed glazing and dentilled cornice, and 2 narrow sashed windows on each floor; the canted bays have large sashed windows, and above each is a Dutch gable with coupled sashes; all these windows are segmental-headed with keystones, and glazing bars only in the upper leaves; dentilled cornice; 3 dormers over the centre. Interior not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TQ1888355407