Lyne House

Lyne House is a country house, now divided, dated 1865. It may incorporate an older structure and was built for the Broadwood family. The house is constructed of red-brown brick with stone dressings and a stone frontispiece, with cement tiled roofs. It is three storeys with attics on the main fronts, with a taller tower to one corner and lower, two-storey service ranges to the rear. The house has paired and multiple brick stacks with octagonal shafts and corbelled tops. A pair is located either side of the entrance gable on the main front. String courses run over the ground and first floors and to the sills of the first-floor windows.

The left corner features a square tower with a pierced decorative parapet above, spiked urn finials to the newels, and an arched panel displaying an armorial crest in the centre. The tower has two lancet windows on the top stage, and below are windows with six lights, mullions, and a transom, all stone-dressed, with a six-light, mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor, and a “cross” window above it. The main range to the right of the tower is symmetrical, with gabled dormers over dentilled eaves, stone corbels, two second-floor mullioned windows, and square bays rising through two floors, either side of a central, gabled entrance break. The flanking square bays have decorative parapets with central armorial cartouches, and windows with six lights, mullions, and a transom on each floor below. A finial sits atop the gable apex over the entrance break, and the second floor has a stepped window. The first floor has two single windows under label mouldings and a stone frontispiece across the ground floor. Paired Doric half-columns support an entablature and decorated parapet above, with a central crest. The entrance features panelled, round-arched double doors within a keystoned surround set on pilaster piers. The return front to the right includes a projecting gable with a massive angle bay and a stepped attic window, alongside an oriel window to the first floor. Service buildings are set to the left and rear.

Inside, the entrance hall is double-height and features an arched Serlian arcade. A panelled ceiling and a staircase are positioned to one end, with a round-arched balustrade supported by spiral-fluted, tapering balusters. Some fireplace surrounds and simple panelled ceilings remain. The house was undergoing conversion at the time of a recent survey. Lyne House lies across the Newdigate/Capel boundary.