Bookham Grove

GREAT BOOKHAM GUILDFORD ROAD TQ 1354 SE (south side) 15/79 side)

7.9.51 Bookham Grove

II

Large house, now flats. 1765, for Admiral Broderick, enlarged 1822; altered. Scored stucco on brick, slate roof. Rectangular plan with short service wing added at left (east) end. Classical style. Two storeys and 4 bays, with a high basement and an attic; symmetrical (except for wing), with a string course over each principal floor; in the centre, a curved double flight of nosed steps with simple iron railings leads to a raised doorway protected by a pedimented Roman Doric porch with mutuled pediment; all the windows are sashed, with glazing bars, those at ground floor with broken segmental pediments containing urns and those at 1st floor with triangular pediments, all with carved brackets; balustraded parapet with a central pediment containing a blind oculus, flanked by 2 dormers. Rectangular hipped roof with chimneys on the front and right-hand ridges. Set back at the east end is a one-bay full-height wing with an unusual octagonal corner turret (probably housing a staircase). The west end has a full- height bow, which has tall 15-pane sashed windows to the principal floor, with wrought-iron balconies, and 12-pane sashes at basement level and 1st floor. At the rear the west half has a 2-storey wing (added in 1822) with a 3-window bow, and a balustraded parapet to the deck (a glazed door opening onto this); otherwise, the windows are 12-pane unhorned sashes, and there are 4 gabled dormers with 6-pane sashes. Interior: the entrance hall has a fine geometrical staircase, and some other rooms have Adam-style plaster decoration (but some partitions have been altered).

Listing NGR: TQ1360554287